On my test box, I am not seeing any errors so I think we are signing the test zone. The dnssec part of named.conf options looks like:
dnssec-enable yes; dnssec-validation yes; dnssec-lookaside auto; managed-keys-directory "/etc/namedb/working"; In the actual zone, I have: zone "OURZONE.com" { type master; file "/etc/namedb/dynamic/OURZONE.zone"; key-directory "/etc/namedb/dynamic/OURZONE.com"; auto-dnssec maintain; allow-update { key KEYNAME; }; #list of other DNS's that are not official slaves include "/etc/zoneconfigs/scnotify"; notify yes; allow-query { any; }; }; I see not one complaint but I know that only takes care of our zone signing. I did a dig on that box and looked up a host which worked but the results were identical to what one would have seen before any DNSSEC directives were added. Now for the dumb questions: Our chain of trust goes through Educause so I must get a signature from them and somehow, I send them a key, probably a ZSK that we then send them on a periodic basis as we also download their new key on a periodic basis. That part, I am still as confused as ever. The documentation I have found so far which one would hope would be almost a cook book set of instructions has been more like asking a passer-by on the street for the time and 18 hours later, he is still describing how he made watches before electronic ones came along. The theory is necessary, but this is a high priority project and folks all up and down the chain of command really wanted this done a long time ago but we first had to upgrade bind and the OS on our platforms so things got a bit behind. I think that where we are now is that we have taken care of the lookups for our zones and what is left is to secure the recursive lookups. On our site, recursive lookups are not allowed from outside our networks. Can we start signing our zones with the keys from dnssec-keygen without any fear of broken lookups for those who are not yet aware of dnssec? Is there, somewhere, a linear description of this process that starts out like: 1. Do this. and leading up to x. Congratulations! you have dnssec working. None of these steps in the puzzle have been hard, so far, but for a totally externally-driven task, I just want to get it working. As a reminder, none of this is on our master DNS yet so we are still doing the normal activities. Our firewalls are supposed to be adjusted to allow the 4096-byte DNS packets in the next day or so so all the testing is being done on another box for now. Thanks for all the help from this list. I think we are more there than not, but we aren't home yet. _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users