DNSSEC signing of an internal zone gains nothing (unless??)

Grant Taylor gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Mon Aug 1 16:29:29 UTC 2022


On 8/1/22 10:15 AM, John W. Blue via bind-users wrote:
> While that extra overhead is true, it is more accurate to say that if 
> internal clients are talking directly to an authoritative server the AD 
> flag will not be set.  You will only get the AA flag.  So there is 
> nothing to be gained from signing an internal zone.

I feel like that's an unacceptably big if.  It also precludes clients 
from doing client side DNSSEC validation.

Finally, why hold internal systems to a lower security standard than 
external systems?



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Grant. . . .
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