On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:19:52AM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> > Thanks for considering my patch.  OpenBSD tremendously improves with this 
> > work of yours, I'm all for it!  However to make use of this DNSSEC mode, 
> > the channel to the recursive DNS server has to be absolutely secure (for DO 
> > or AD in a response).  
> 
> Yes, the assumption is that the resolver listed in /etc/resolv.conf is
> trusted, including the network in between.
> 
> The easiest method is to run unbound on 127.0.0.1 with
> "auto-trust-anchor-file".

I had a patch somewhere for TSIG as well somewhere, give me some time to
find it.  TSIG can secure the channel as well, but my implementation wasn't
all that pretty.

> > My looming question that noone wants to ask because it's a bit (a lot)
> > of work for the programmer(s) is: can we work toward the goal of a 
> > validating
> > dnssec resolver?
> 
> Please clarify: do you mean "stub resolver" here, ie the code that runs
> in libc?

Yes, that is what I mean.  That way the recursive dns server doesn't have to
be on the same box and answers are validated locally.

Regards,
-peter

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