[dns-operations] Validating or not validating (ICANN controlled interruption)

[Rubens Kuhl]

What I can tell you is that registries and applicants suggested ICANN to not require DNSSEC-signign of wildcard controlled interruption due to likely differences in resolver behaviour, including some known bugs. 

Rubens

On Sep 3, 2014, at 4:00 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:

> BIND validates "A nimportequoi.otsuka" and yields an answer with AD bit
> set.
> 
> Unbound gives back the answer but without the AD bit.
> 
> [Try it yourself, 'dig @unbound.odvr.dns-oarc.net A
> nimportequoi.otsuka' and 'dig @bind.odvr.dns-oarc.net A nimportequoi.otsuka']
> 
> In some cases (difficult to pinpoint, depending on the resolver's
> state), both BIND and Unbound return SERVFAIL.
> 
> Who's right?
> 
> PS: dnsviz claims that names like eb2dz5xm4s.otsuka are "secure,
> non-existent" while they elicit an answer.