www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov / pubmed

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Aug 18 12:31:12 UTC 2010


On 18/08/10 13:30, Phil Mayers wrote:
> On 18/08/10 13:15, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> It comes right up in Firefox but prompts for a username and password.
>
> Do you have DNSSEC validation enabled? Because as per my email, it's a
> DNSSEC problem.

Damn - in fact sorry, scratch that. I realise my original email said 
nothing of the sort! I blame the stress of moving house ;o)

>
> After a bit of investigation, it seems that the problem is a missing
> NSEC/NSEC3 record in the empty reply for:
>
> $ dig +dnssec @165.112.4.230 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ds
>
> ...since the "ncbi" zone is an unsigned child zone, there needs to be an
> NSEC/NSEC3 record to prove the absence of the DS record, and have a
> secure delegation to an unsigned child zone.




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