DNS Servers that do not properly support or properly ignore DNS cookies and
instead return FORMERR is annoying. This is not new. However I have been seeing
more or perhaps just have more users that are finding more domains that are
hosted on authoritative servers with this unfortunate behavior.
Example progrowth.com name severs.
Individual work arounds on caching BIND servers are not difficult to implement,
like this
server 47.206.74.18 {
send-cookie no;
};
server 209.131.228.178 {
send-cookie no;
};
However this workaround is problematic in terms of ongoing upkeep of this list
and the increasing need to add new entries to the list. I'd like to be able to
start sending cookies again if the servers begin to operate compliant to the
EDNS RFC and I would like to not have to write any tools to remove entries from
this list or schedule some regular calendar reminder to check or add to Nagios
or whatever. I'd also rather not just globally disable sending of DNS cookies
but it is something being considered.
In this article @ https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01387 it states near the bottom
"Nevertheless, mishandling of the COOKIE option has been known to cause errors
that are fatal to name resolution when the resolver is validating responses
coming from a signed zone, and the authoritative server returns either FORMERR
or BADVERS, or fails to respond to the query. named treats these answers as if
the server does not support EDNS (which it doesn't) so it stops sending any
EDNS queries at all, which makes it impossible to get a DNSSEC response back."
This statement indicates this fall-back method is only applicable to signed
domains. Is there a knob in BIND to apply this behavior to all domains?
Basically, if the authoritative server is behaving incorrectly in this way then
enable no-EDNS or no-COOKIE mode in the interest of allowing DNS queries to
continue to be answered for the end users.
My caching servers are running the BIND 9.18 branch
Thanks for any pointers or suggestions.
-Justin
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