DNSSEC with views and shared zone files

Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com
Fri Oct 18 15:32:55 UTC 2024


I am finally getting around to setting up DNSSEC on my server (Bind 
9.16).  I found some instructions online and was able to set up one of 
my zones and confirm that the keys are being returned.  However, after 
doing a bit more testing I ran into a couple of issues.

I am using the recommended setup with the "dnssec-policy default" and 
"inline-signing yes".

The first issue is that my server uses a few views to give different IPs 
based on which network the request comes from.  I found that if I point 
the zones in the different views to the same key directory, there are no 
errors and all views return the same keys when I test with dig.  So this 
appears to work.  Are there any gotchas that might come up with this setup?

The second issue is that I have multiple zones that all point to the 
same file since those domains all go to the same set of servers. Right 
now, I am using the same zone file for all of them.  This works fine 
currently, but when I try to enable DNSSEC for those domains, I get an 
error "writable file ... already in use".  The simple answer would be to 
make a unique file for each zone, however I would rather keep a single 
file updated instead of having to make changes to all of the individual 
files whenever something changes with those servers.  So far, the only 
other solution I've found is to manage the keys manually, which seems to 
add quite a bit of complexity to the setup.  Is there a better way to do 
this?

Thanks,

Bowie


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