[dns-operations] Possibly-incorrect NSEC responses from many RSOs

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Mon Mar 1 17:11:32 UTC 2021


Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org> wrote:
>
> The RFC 4035 language is sound for NSEC and DNSKEY, but (and this is a
> related side topic), I rather think that the specification should have
> said that queries for "RRSIG" for an extant name should return a single
> RRSIG of their choice, rather than treat RRSIG records as a normal
> RRSet.

There's some relatively feeble verbiage about this in RFC 8482 (minimal
responses to ANY) - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8482#page-8

BIND does what you suggest if you turn on the minimal-any option.

Tony.
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