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Date:      Sun, 08 Jul 2012 02:31:17 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Darren Pilgrim <darren@bluerosetech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)
Message-ID:  <4FF95365.7010605@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4FF8D89B.1030308@bluerosetech.com>
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On 07/07/2012 17:47, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> On 2012-07-07 16:45, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Also re DNSSEC integration in the base, I've stated before that I
>> believe very strongly that any kind of hard-coding of trust anchors as
>> part of the base resolver setup is a bad idea, and should not be done.
>> We need to leverage the ports system for this so that we don't get stuck
>> with a scenario where we have stale stuff in the base that is hard for
>> users to upgrade.
> 
> Considering the current root update cert bundle has a 20-year root CA
> and 5-year DNSSEC and email CAs,

Neither of which has any relevance to the actual root zone ZSK, which
could require an emergency roll tomorrow.

> I don't think it's unreasonable to
> maintain a copy of icannbundle.pem in the source tree

Again, that has nothing to do with the actual ZSK, other than providing
a way to validate the *existing* one. That's not the issue, at all.

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