"dig dnskey int." different responses from recent BIND versions

Chris Thompson cet1 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Apr 7 16:11:04 UTC 2010


On Apr 7 2010, I wrote:

>A peculiarity:
>
>  dig dnskey int. @...
>
>to nameservers with validation via dlv.isc.org gives SERVFAIL if they are
>running BIND 9.6.2-P1 or 9.7.0-P1. but gives a normal "NODATA" from
>BIND 9.6.2. Any ideas?

The same thing happens for any zone without DNSKEY records replacing "int.".
"+cd" suppresses the SERVFAIL, so it's a validation failure (but shouldn't
be, of course).

I have reported the problem to bind-bugs and given them some level 3 trace
output, but I haven't worked out what is going wrong from it. :-(

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk



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