Am Mittwoch, den 15.04.2020, 02:28 -0400 schrieb Viktor Dukhovni:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 05:59:51PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
>
>
> but if that is incompatible with other stub resolver libraries on the
> same machine, you may need a private musl-specific configuration file.
>
> My money is on this being unnecessary.  I'll let [you] know what I find
> from dns-operations, and if possible perhaps a RIPE ATLAS probe,
> assuming they support enabling AD=1.
>
> The first interesting tidbit is:
>
>     https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2020-April/020098.html
>
> which points out that sufficiently recent glibc supports soliciting and
> censoring the AD-bit.
>
>     https://gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io/r/c/glibc/+/461/3/NEWS
>
>     * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) 
> bit
>       in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
>       /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options).  In this
>       mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
>       applications which call res_search and related functions.  In the 
> default
>       mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared 
> in
>       responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation.  (Therefore, the name
>       servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
>
> I read this to mean that the new "trust-ad" option, if set, causes the
> glibc stub resolver to set AD=1 in queries, but otherwise, causes it to
> strip the AD bit from replies.
>
> I don't yet have access to systems with this recent a glibc to confirm
> the above, but this is likely relevant to Postfix administrators who
> enable DANE.   You may need to explicitly add the "trust-ad" option to
> your /etc/resolv.conf, while making sure that all the listed nameservers
> are local (loopback interface).
>
>

I don't have a glibc 2.31 right now, otherwise I would try it.

Without setting the "trust-ad" option someone testing it would get the
same symptoms as I did on musl-libc?
Hence DNSSEC information would be missing in resolver response and
silently deactivating outgoing DANE?

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