Key Expirey.
Roy.Arends at nominum.com
Roy.Arends at nominum.com
Mon Mar 26 21:05:48 UTC 2001
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Osman Shoukry wrote:
> Hi all,
> I recently setup the TSIG slave to send and retrieve signed requests to the
> master. However I just noticed today that the TSIG started to fail, and
> when I put the DNS in debug mode to see what is going on, I saw these
> entries:
>
> Mar 26 11:40:16.747 tsig key 'secret': signature has expired
> Mar 26 11:40:16.747 client slave.ip.address#xx: request has invalid
> signature: tsig verify failure
>
> In the documentation, nothing is mentioned about what the lifetime of the
> key is, and I thought it would be like the Raduis authentication shared
> secret, which never expires.
>
> To have run in TSIG mode, if the keys expire, it seems to me that I have to
> write a script that would generate keys every "expiry date -1" and then
> restart the named.
>
> I am not sure if this is really how things are, or is there something I am
> overlooking....
>
> Any input on the subject is greatly appreciated,
>
> Osman Shoukry
Your log did not say the Key expired, but the signature expired, which is
a fundamental difference. Keys do not expire, signatures do.
The clocks on those machine are probably out of sync, or there is a
significant traffic delay while synchronising data.
Regards,
Roy Arends
Nominum
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