Re: dnssec config sanity check

2011-10-07 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 10/5/2011 10:25 AM, michoski wrote: Your initial hope is what I missed comments on... Me too; didn't get any that's horribly broken because or any that looks good feedback, guess I'll just have to review it a couple more times and hope for the best. It is recommended that the transition

Re: dnssec config sanity check

2011-10-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 03:49:25PM -0700, Paul B. Henson hen...@acm.org wrote a message of 40 lines which said: Other than knowing a given domain had an issue, you have no idea what caused it, or what tool they may have been using, and it is only an assumption that the issue arose from a

Re: dnssec config sanity check

2011-10-05 Thread michoski
On 10/4/11 3:49 PM, Paul B. Henson hen...@acm.org wrote: dnssec is fairly complicated, and the issue of timing can be complex, but once the variables are determined than the actual procedures of implementation are pretty simple. Generate keys with appropriate publication, activation,

Re: dnssec config sanity check

2011-10-05 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 12:22:58AM -0700, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Not true. For every problem reported by the tool, I contacted the managers of the domain, both to report they have an issue and to ask them what system they were using. So, I'm pretty confident that OpenDNSSEC had no such

Re: dnssec config sanity check

2011-10-04 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 05:32:18PM -0700, Paul B. Henson hen...@acm.org wrote a message of 59 lines which said: Our zone data is maintained in a revision control repository; when changes are made there is a process that generates a bind format zone file from the data, checks it for syntax

Re: dnssec config sanity check

2011-10-04 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 10/3/2011 6:31 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: Don't ASSUME that the DS will be published in time. Build checks into your proceedures from the beginning. e.g. Publish and activate July 1. Change DS records July 8. Check that DS is published July 15 and set inactivate and deletion

Re: dnssec config sanity check

2011-10-04 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 10/3/2011 11:45 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Experience of DNSSEC deployment (see my paper at SATIN http://conferences.npl.co.uk/satin/papers/satin2011-Bortzmeyer.pdf) shows that custom programs have many timing bugs. Many things can go wrong Why not using an existing program such as

dnssec config sanity check

2011-10-03 Thread Paul B. Henson
We are getting ready to deploy dnssec, and I'd appreciate a quick sanity check on our configuration and key timings to make sure I didn't miss anything that would cause things to blow up ;). Our zone data is maintained in a revision control repository; when changes are made there is a process

Re: dnssec config sanity check

2011-10-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4e8a5412.7050...@acm.org, Paul B. Henson writes: We are getting ready to deploy dnssec, and I'd appreciate a quick sanity check on our configuration and key timings to make sure I didn't miss anything that would cause things to blow up ;). Our zone data is maintained in a