feature request: modify getrrsetbyname() to use libunbound

Robert Story rstory at tislabs.com
Wed May 9 22:59:53 EST 2012


On Wed, 09 May 2012 12:44:13 +0200 Ondřej wrote:
OC> There is only one pitfall. The autonomous validation is attempted only
OC> if the DNS response does not contain the AD flag. Therefore if someone
OC> changes the DNS response on the wire and leaves the AD flag set,
OC> spurious data are trusted without further validating. This is not
OC> secure, as link between computer and DNS resolver cannot be generally
OC> trusted.  

Yes, which is why we prefer our DNSSEC-Tools libval patch, which always
does local validation and does not depend on the AD flag.

	https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1672

Robert

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Senior Software Engineer
SPARTA, Inc., a Parsons Company
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