Dear all,

May be this has been discussed long ago on the list or elsewhere. Please
guide me to proper pointers, if any.

Section 11.2.1 in [1]
<http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-81-2.pdf>
states the following for KSK rollover for *locally secure zones*:

"*In rolling over the KSK, the secure zone may not know which resolvers
have stored the public key as a trust anchor. If the network administrator
has an out-of-band method of contacting resolver administrators that have
stored the public key as a trust anchor (such as e-mail), the network
administrator should send out appropriate warnings and set up a trusted
means of disseminating the new trust anchor. Otherwise, the DNS
administrator can do nothing except pre-publish the new KSK with ample time
to give resolver administrators enough time to learn the new KSK.*"

I have the following questions:

a) This might work in case of an active KSK rollover. However in case of
KSK compromise, which would require an emergency KSK rollover, what does
the network administrator do in the '*Otherwise*' situation from the above
quote?

b) I am just curious to know if this is even an issue or do network
administrators care about it? And if it is, Is there any RFC or relevant
doc or mailing list that discusses this problem/solutions, etc.?

References:
[1]
http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-81-2.pdf

Thanks,
Aanchal Malhotra.
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