[dns-operations] Cloudflare considered harmful?

[Vicky Shrestha]

Hi,

On Apr 15, 20 18:19, Brian Somers wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2020, at 1:05 PM, Vicky Shrestha <vicky at geeks.net.np> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Apr 09, 20 18:44, Alexander Dupuy wrote:
> >> FWIW, Google Public DNS doesn't make any attempt to try to check for or
> >> handle CNAMEs at apex, either in regular lookup or DNSSEC validation.
> >> There's not much point, since it's not legal zone data, and there is no
> >> possibility of consistent behavior.
> >> 
> >> SERVFAILing the NODATA responses for domains with CNAME and other records,
> >> as Paul Vixie suggested, won't help in the case of the domain served from
> >> gslb01.nlm.nih.gov since the NSEC3 records don't have the CNAME, and even
> >> if they were present, only breaks negative responses, which has little
> >> operational effect.
> >> 
> >> A case similar to the unsigned Cloudflare one was reported against Google
> >> Public DNS on our issue tracker over a year ago – I closed it in
> >> https://issuetracker.google.com/122204067#comment3 as Works as Intended and
> >> suggested they file an issue with Cloudflare.
> >> 
> >> My best guess about the problem is that they allow users on paid plans to
> >> create CNAME at apex (since it is flattened, it works correctly). When
> >> users drop back to free plans (or free trials expire), the CNAME flattening
> >> is turned off, and then you see the CNAME at apex configuration.
> > 
> > We found a bug in how we handle wildcard CNAME record pointing to apex
> > (with CNAME at apex). Bugfix is being tested and will be pushed out
> > soon. This is likely a regression that got introduced while cleaning up
> > the CNAME code. We flatten CNAME at apex for all customers.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Vicky
> 
> Thanks for following up on this Vicky.  Any idea on an ETA?  It’d be great to
> close out these issues on our end.

The fix is being rolled out to our canary POPs and it should be deployed in
rest of the network next week.

> 
> Cheers.
> 
> —
> Brian
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