Re: Best practize to store the ZONE files

2011-01-03 Thread Kevin Darcy
It's really more of an OS tuning question, isn't it? The usage pattern of a BIND instance is: a) not much writing of master zone files or journal files unless Dynamic Update is enabled and the frequency of updates is relatively high, b) not much writing of slave/stub zone files or journal files,

Re: caching of expired RRSIG's ?

2011-01-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Lampo: > I agree for the consequence of those "cache misses". > But doesnot that mean that RFC4035 needs amended to state : > "remove atomic entry if *all* its RRSIGs get invalid" > (because now it states : any = "at least one") It's about the TTL on the RRSIG RRset, not the signature val

Re: caching of expired RRSIG's ?

2011-01-03 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
I agree for the consequence of those "cache misses". But doesnot that mean that RFC4035 needs amended to state : "remove atomic entry if *all* its RRSIGs get invalid" (because now it states : any = "at least one") And it implicitly confirms that these statements in the RF

RE: caching of expired RRSIG's ?

2011-01-03 Thread Marc Lampo
I agree for the consequence of those "cache misses". But doesnot that mean that RFC4035 needs amended to state : "remove atomic entry if *all* its RRSIGs get invalid" (because now it states : any = "at least one") And it implicitly confirms that these statements in the RFC do apply to expired RRS

Re: caching of expired RRSIG's ?

2011-01-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Lampo: > If anybody disagrees with this interpretation, > and interprets it like expired RRSIG's *must* be deleted from a cache, > would you be so kind to share the reference(s) any RFC's on which you base > your interpretation. You need to cache expired RRSIGs for some time, or else ever

caching of expired RRSIG's ?

2011-01-03 Thread Marc Lampo
Hello group, and my best whishes for a healthy and challenging 2011 ! Allow me to return to the issue of caching expired RRSIG's. In RFC4035, DNSSEC “protocol”, in section 4 : “Resolving” 4.5. Response Caching A security-aware resolver SHOULD cache each response as a single atomic entry co