Broken trust chain presumably due to some zone operators using LetsEncrypt certificates

Ondřej Surý ondrej at isc.org
Fri Oct 1 16:49:15 UTC 2021


Hi Richard,

this is not the case.

slack.com botched their DS/DNSKEY deployment (there’s a thread on dns-operations about it).

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
ondrej at isc.org

> On 1. 10. 2021, at 18:46, Richard T.A. Neal <richard at richardneal.com> wrote:
> 
> For those of you facing a curious issue with BIND failing to resolve records for some zones today it’s not necessarily BIND having “a Friday moment” 😊
>  
> It looks like the LetsEncrypt root certificate expiry is even impacting some DNSSEC zones that have used a LetsEncrypt certificate to sign their zone file.
>  
> For example my BIND 9.17.18 / Ubuntu 21.04 servers are failing to resolve {anything}.slack.com at the moment, presumably because Slack have used LetsEncrypt to sign their zone. BIND is logging the following in my query-errors.log file:
>  
> (app.slack.com): query failed (broken trust chain) for app.slack.com/IN/A at query.c:7658
>  
> There’s a little more info about the LetsEncrypt issue at the following two links (not my site):
> 
> https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-old-root-expiration/
> and
> https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-september-2021/
>  
> Richard.
>  
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