root-anchor.xml & anchors.xml in Bind

Lyle Giese lyle at lcrcomputer.net
Sat Jul 17 16:12:16 UTC 2010


Alan Clegg wrote:
> On 7/17/2010 9:49 AM, Lyle Giese wrote:
>
>   
>> What is the difference between managed-keys and trusted-keys? 
>>     
>
> Managed keys automatically watch for RFC-5011 "roll over" and update
> when new keys are made available.  Trusted keys are manually managed and
> will cause you to have problems if you forget to change a key during key
> rollovers.
>
>   
>> And should I be importing anchors.xml as managed-keys instead of
>> trusted-keys?
>>     
>
> I'm recommending managed-keys.
>
> AlanC
>
>   
>   
Then why was anchors2keys written to create only trusted-keys?<GRIN>? 

It doesn't look hard to modify the script, but there appears to be
subtle differences in syntax between the two data types.

Or better yet, make it a runtime option in anchors2keys to create
managed keys or trusted keys data set.

Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.

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