How is DNSSEC
Ben Laurie
ben at links.org
Wed Mar 26 14:01:50 EDT 2008
Dave Howe wrote:
> James A. Donald wrote:
>> From time to time I hear that DNSSEC is working fine, and on
>> examining the matter I find it is "working fine" except that ....
>
> DNSSEC is "working fine" as a technology. However, it is worth
> remembering that it works based on digitally signing an entire zone -
> the state of the world being what it is, most people prohibit xfer so
> any other technology that would allow a zonewalk is not going to be
> deployed.
>
> as far as I can tell, this is a basic design flaw, so isn't going to be
> rectified anytime soon.
RFC 5155 rectifies this design flaw.
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