EDNS Compliance

Ben Croswell ben.croswell at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 17:07:11 UTC 2019


As long as all 4 DNS servers are running the same version, my first
suggestion would be to check firewalls for dropped packets.

Some FW/IPS drop packets with edns versions other 0 because they see it as
an attack.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 12:02 PM N. Max Pierson <nmaxpierson at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I am trying to ensure our Bind servers comply with EDNS for the upcoming
> Flag Day (https://dnsflagday.net/). I am somewhat ignorant to EDNS but
> from what I have read, the information is somewhat conflicting as some
> documentation states EDNS is not a record that you configure in your zone
> file then other sites refer to some sort of OPT record you can configure.
> So my first question is which of the documentation is correct from what I
> have read? Is it DNS server functionality that supports EDNS or do you also
> have to configure something in the zone files?
>
> Also, I have 4 (well 5 counting the master that isn't queryable)
> nameservers with multiple domains served on them. When I run one of my
> primary domains through the ISC EDNS tool, it comes back as 2 out of the 4
> are failing EDNS queries.They are all on the same version of Bind
> (9.8.2rc1) and they are all slaves of the master so they should all have
> the same records. Can anyone please explain what I need to do to resolve
> the timeouts listed on the ISC testing tool?
>
> Here is what the tool says ...
>
>
> venyu.com. @208.79.48.30 (ns4.venyu.com.): dns=ok edns=ok *edns1=timeout*
>  edns at 512=ok ednsopt=ok *edns1opt=timeout* do=ok ednsflags=ok docookie=ok
> edns512tcp=ok *optlist=timeout*
>
> venyu.com. @69.2.33.250 (ns1.venyu.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok edns at 512=ok
> ednsopt=ok edns1opt=ok do=ok ednsflags=ok docookie=ok edns512tcp=ok
> optlist=ok
> venyu.com. @2604:d800:12::250 (ns1.venyu.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok
> edns at 512=ok ednsopt=ok edns1opt=ok do=ok ednsflags=ok docookie=ok
> edns512tcp=ok optlist=ok
>
> venyu.com. @69.2.63.250 (ns3.venyu.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok edns at 512=ok
> ednsopt=ok edns1opt=ok do=ok ednsflags=ok docookie=ok edns512tcp=ok
> optlist=ok
> venyu.com. @2604:d800:13::250 (ns3.venyu.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok
> edns at 512=ok ednsopt=ok edns1opt=ok do=ok ednsflags=ok docookie=ok
> edns512tcp=ok optlist=ok
>
> venyu.com. @208.79.48.26 (ns2.venyu.com.): dns=ok edns=ok *edns1=timeout*
>  edns at 512=ok ednsopt=ok *edns1opt=timeout* do=ok ednsflags=ok docookie=ok
> edns512tcp=ok *optlist=timeout*
>
>
> TIA!!
>
> Regards,
>
> Max
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