Re: [dns-operations] .mm off the air for anyone who validates

2013-01-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:08:37AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote a message of 38 lines which said: > .mm failed to re-sign their DNSKEY RRset. Note that, because Unbound is tolerant by default ("10 % rule"), Unbound users will see the problem only on Sunday: # BIND % dig @149.20.64.20 DNSKEY mm

Re: [dns-operations] .mm off the air for anyone who validates

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jan 17 2013, Mark Andrews wrote: .mm failed to re-sign their DNSKEY RRset. Not for the first time - see https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2012-July/008632.html and following. I wrote then | I noticed this only because http://stats.research.icann.org/dns/tld_report/ | dr

Re: [dns-operations] .mm off the air for anyone who validates

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jan 18 2013, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:08:37AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote a message of 38 lines which said: .mm failed to re-sign their DNSKEY RRset. Note that, because Unbound is tolerant by default ("10 % rule"), Unbound users will see the problem only on S

Re: [dns-operations] .mm off the air for anyone who validates

2013-01-18 Thread WBrown
Chris Thompson wrote on 01/18/2013 10:06:25 AM: > Is fudging the expiry times like that really a good idea? If all > all validators allowed a 10% overrun, DNS operators would just > get 10% sloppier and we would back where we started. In some percentage of cases, that will most likely be true. I

[dns-operations] 10% was Re: .mm ....

2013-01-18 Thread Edward Lewis
It's an acceptable idea - certainly not a bad one. Adding security to an existing system will, inherently, make it more brittle. What ever can be done to soften the brittleness while retaining the basic need for security should be done for the sake of resilience and availability of the system

Re: [dns-operations] 10% was Re: .mm ....

2013-01-18 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Edward Lewis wrote: > Adding security to an existing system will, inherently, make it more brittle. I strongly disagree with this statement. Increasing resilience under duress should be a key goal of any security enhancement; if it doesn't do this, then it hasn'

Re: [dns-operations] 10% was Re: .mm ....

2013-01-18 Thread Edward Lewis
On Jan 18, 2013, at 12:18, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > > On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Edward Lewis wrote: > >> Adding security to an existing system will, inherently, make it more >> brittle. > > I strongly disagree with this statement. Increasing resilience under duress > should be a key go

Re: [dns-operations] .mm off the air for anyone who validates

2013-01-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , wbr...@e1b.org writes: > Chris Thompson wrote on 01/18/2013 10:06:25 AM: > > > Is fudging the expiry times like that really a good idea? If all > > all validators allowed a 10% overrun, DNS operators would just > > get 10% sloppier and we would back where we started. 10% of what.

Re: [dns-operations] .mm off the air for anyone who validates

2013-01-18 Thread Vernon Schryver
> From: Mark Andrews > sign the zone two weeks ago they should have gone insecure by having > the DS records pulled from the root. There is no valid excuse for > letting your zone go to invalid. That's as true saying there's no valid excuse for making any error. A better way to state that truth

Re: [dns-operations] .mm off the air for anyone who validates

2013-01-18 Thread Paul Vixie
... Vernon Schryver wrote: > ... >>> I think this comes under "be liberal in what you accept." >> No it doesn't. > > Indeed, "be liberal in what you accept" generally never has and should > not apply to security. Who is liberal enough to accept passwords that > are 90% right and public keys that

Re: [dns-operations] 10% was Re: .mm ....

2013-01-18 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-01-19, at 06:05, Edward Lewis wrote: > The posed question is whether expanding the lifetime of a signature by "10%" > is a good idea. I'll assume (since I didn't see the original mail) that the proposal is to make validators tolerant by 10%, rather than to change anything on the autho

Re: [dns-operations] .mm off the air for anyone who validates

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Jones
On 18 January 2013 16:59, wrote: > Chris Thompson wrote on 01/18/2013 10:06:25 AM: > >> Is fudging the expiry times like that really a good idea? If all >> all validators allowed a 10% overrun, DNS operators would just >> get 10% sloppier and we would back where we started. > > In some percentage