DNSSEC Generating Zone Key hanging

Damian Myerscough damian.myerscough at gmail.com
Sun Apr 22 18:08:24 UTC 2012


Thanks for your help, I noticed a small regex which modified my
configuration file thus causing errors.

On 22 April 2012 17:03, Mark Elkins <mje at posix.co.za> wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 16:31 +0100, Damian Myerscough wrote:
> > Thanks a lot, I have now resolved this issue. However, I was following
> > the DNSSEC in 6 minutes guide [1]
> > for learning purposes and I have followed all the steps up to "you are
> > now serving DNSSEC signed zones".
>
> Reading the presentation - which dates itself....
>
> Slide 16, rather use
> dnssec­keygen ­-a RSASHA256 ­-b 1024 -­n ZONE zonename   (for ZSK)
>
> Slide - 18: Also use RSASHA256 for the KSK. I personally use just 2048
> bits for the KSK.
>
> This avoids you having to do an algorithm rollover - which is a royal
> pain in the proverbial. Its also what the 'root' uses.
> ('dig @i.root-servers.net. . dnskey' gives:
> 'DNSKEY 257 3 8' - and - 'DNSKEY 256 3 8')
> The '8' part is algo RSASHA256, you probably have a '5' there.
>
>
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Regards,
Damian Myerscough
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