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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:23:17 +0200
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIND - slaving the root zone and signature expired
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On 25 October 2012 18:55, Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> wrote:
> On 25 October 2012 18:33, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone else experienced this problem today ?
>>>
>>> We slave the root zone and have received "signature expired" errors.
>>
>>
>> Found this:
>>
>> https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2011-March/007116.html
>>
>> which leads to this:
>>
>> http://in-addr-transition.icann.org/
>
>
>
> Hi Warren and thanks for your reply,
>
>
> I've dug around some more and identified the problem we've been having.
>
>
>
> Apparently, from a given netblock, we can't AXFR the "." and "arpa"
> zones anymore with F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> We can from some other boxes.
> I suspect we might have been firewalled or something, although we
> don't query them very often , but that's beyond the point.
>
>
> I've now transitioned all our PF boxes to slave from
> "xfr.lax.dns.icann.org" and "xfr.cjr.dns.icann.org" as per the
> documentation found in /etc/namedb/named.conf
>
> What bothers me is that the commented lines from named.conf say to use
> the ICANN XFR servers, while the actual commented configuration uses
> F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>
>
>
>
> See below a freshly SVNup'd copy on 10.0:
>
> % svn info named.conf
> Path: named.conf
> Name: named.conf
> Working Copy Root Path: /data/freebsd/src/head
> URL: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/etc/namedb/named.conf
> Repository Root: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base
> Repository UUID: ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f
> Revision: 242082
> Node Kind: file
> Schedule: normal
> Last Changed Author: uqs
> Last Changed Rev: 229783
> Last Changed Date: 2012-01-07 16:10:32 +0000 (Sat, 07 Jan 2012)
> Text Last Updated: 2012-09-01 11:43:31 +0000 (Sat, 01 Sep 2012)
> Checksum: 598add209c192aac1dc4d973ce31922dff8b93c9
>
>
> I SVNup'd it just today, and yet:
>
> ===
>         As documented at http://dns.icann.org/services/axfr/ these zones:
>         "." (the root), ARPA, IN-ADDR.ARPA, IP6.ARPA, and ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>         are available for AXFR from these servers on IPv4 and IPv6:
>         xfr.lax.dns.icann.org, xfr.cjr.dns.icann.org
> */
> /*
> zone "." {
>         type slave;
>         file "/etc/namedb/slave/root.slave";
>         masters {
>                 192.5.5.241;    // F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>         };
>         notify no;
> };
> ===
>
>
>
>
> I'm going to file a PR with a small diff to use the ICANN's XFR
> servers instead of F.
>
>
>
> Thanks for your feedback regardless :)


If anyone cares to take it, filed as conf/173077



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