FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit

[Doug Barton]

Matthew Seaman wrote:

> Are there any plans to enable DNSSEC capability in the resolver built 
> into FreeBSD?

The server is already capable of it. I'm seriously considering 
enabling the define to make the CLI tools (dig/host/nslookup) capable 
as well (there is already an OPTION for this in ports).

The problem is that _using_ DNSSEC requires configuration changes in 
named.conf, and more importantly, configuration of "trust anchors" 
(even for the command line stuff) since the root is not signed. It's 
not hard to do that with the DLV system that ISC has in place, and I 
would be willing to create a conf file that shows how to do that for 
users to include if they choose to. I am not comfortable enabling it 
by default (not yet anyway), it's too big of a POLA issue.

Doug

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