On Mo, 28.09.20 13:20, Chuck Anderson (cra(a)alum.wpi.edu) wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 04:59:17PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 06:36:02PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > * Andrew Lutomirski:
> >
> > > Paul may well have been mixing different things here, but I don't
> > > think you answered the one that seems like the most severe problem:
> > > systemd-resolved removed perfectly valid DNSSEC records that were
> > > supplied by the upstream server. One might reasonably debate whether
> > > Fedora's default DNS resolver configuration should validate DNSSEC,
> > > but I think it should honor the DO bit in client requests and return
> > > DNSSEC data.
> >
> > FWIW, this is <
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879028>.
>
> In an ideal world, we would just implement this missing functionality.
> It's definitely on the TODO list, and there has been some preparatory
> work done, but so far nobody found the time. If this is judged necessary,
> we'll raise the priority of that work. Nevertheless, I don't think it is
> such high priority — the number of people using DNSSEC is not too large,
> and they are generally power-users who understand how to specify a different
> server. So while definitely annoying, I didn't consider this a deal-breaker.
DNSSEC is not meant for power-users, and it doesn't require specifying
"a different server".
I thought Fedora was supposed to be First? How can it be if Fedora
chooses to use/configure software by default that is missing critical
DNSSEC functionality and breaks DNS standards?
DNSSEC doesn't really work client-side IRL. The DNS servers typical
clients talk to generally do not implement what you need, and if they
do not correctly. This means if you have a great network admin who set
everything up right it might work, but DNSSEC on a laptop that moves
around and connects to a WLAN here, and another WLAN there and a third
WLAN over there is just a nightmare.
If the other big OSes would enable DNSSEC client-side by default
things might change, but neither Windows nor MacOS or Android do.
Lennart
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