On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Wes Hardaker <wjhns61@hardakers.net> wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 22:55:05 -0400, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> said:
aside from just getting some cctlds signed, i will be interested in the tools, usability, work flow, ... i.e. what is it like for a poor innocent cctld which wants to sign their zone?
If there is sufficient interest, we could do a bar bof to describe some of the tools IANA has...
CM> I think Sandy Murphy or other Sparta folks have presented some of the CM> work they've done on this... Perhaps finding one/some of them and CM> having a more operations focused presentation in LAX or ... is a good CM> idea as well?
The tools that Sparta developed (and made freely available via an open source packaged that is BSD licensed) can be found at http://www.dnssec-tools.org/ . In particular, signing a zone is
yup, and that's helpful stuff.
intended to be easy using "zonesigner" (requires bind tools):
zonesigner -genkeys db.example.com
great... what about a zone that's getting slaved off of a silent master at the customer site? how does that get integrated? (customer does the dns-sec magic, my server validates the updates... config examples help here)
Then next time, just leave off the -genkeys argument.
(there is also a daemon called "rollerd" that can auto-sign on a regular basis and help automate key-rollever timing)
nice, extra load induced on server? impact on the number of zones I can serve? tinydns compatible? db-backended NS daemon support?
The full list of tools and tutorials sectioned into different needs can be found here:
great :)
All for free. Don't you hate those ??biased??, freely-available, source-code-supplied-so-you-can-change-it, BSD-licensed open source packages? --
I like free... as long as it's the hammer I need for the nails I have. -Chris