Re: US government mandates? use of DNSSEC by federal agencies

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:53:26 -0700
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman () es net> wrote:

> > So the question I have is... will operators (ISP, etc) turn on
> > DNSsec checking? Or a more basic question of whether you even
> > _could_ turn on checking if you were so inclined?
>
> As far as I can see, at least with bind-9.5, operators would have to
> turn it off. It looks to me like dnssec-validation defaults to on. It
> also appears that bind-9.4 defaults to 'off'. 

Right.  The real questions are the clients and the trust anchor -- what
root key do you support?


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb