[dns-operations] Cutting a zone with DNSSEC

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Mon Oct 26 20:06:44 UTC 2015


In message <alpine.LSU.2.00.1510261531520.25050 at hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Tony F
inch writes:
> Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:
> >
> > No.  The validator should try other servers if the validation fails.
> > It just does more work until all the servers are up to date.
> 
> OK, that's reassuring.
> 
> And it's another point in favour of your argument that validating stubs
> should use CD=0, because CD=1 suppresses the recursive server's efforts
> to work around this kind of partial temporary breakage.

Yes.

RFC 6840 is just plain wrong to say always send CD=1 and named doesn't.

Mark

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