advice wanted: key management for nsupdate/DNSSEC

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Mar 25 00:21:43 UTC 2009


In message <200903242339.n2ONd3X0021499 at edge.twig.com>, Richard Doty writes:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am wondering how folks handle keys for zones that are going
> to be signed with nsupdate.
> 
> It appears that named wants the zone signing keys to be in the
> location identified by the "directory" parameter, yes?  Putting
> all keys in one directory seems like a scaling issue, besides which
> I believe that particular directory needs to be writable by named
> so it can create core files.  I have to leave the keys online for
> nsupdate, but named doesn't need to modify them itself.
> 
> It would be cool if the location of per-zone keys were a per-zone
> configuration parameter, but I can't find any suggestion of that
> in the code.  Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

	See key-directory which is a per zone directive.
> 
> How do you manage your nsupdate keys?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard.
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