[bind10-dev] NS/NSEC3/DNAME at wildcard

Peter Koch pk at DENIC.DE
Sun Feb 6 17:51:17 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 02:31:51PM -0800, JINMEI Tatuya / ?$B?@L at C#:H wrote:

> For NSEC3 and DNAME, your response below seems to suggest the same
> conclusion I mentioned in my other response in this thread:
>  - NSEC3 + wildcard is meaningless, but wouldn't be specifically
>    harmful (so it's okay to simply accept it)

it's pointless anywhere except where the label matches a hashed owner name,
but the wildcard (or, more precisely, the "*" label) isn't special.

>  - DNAME + wildcard is harmful (so it rather makes sense to reject it
>    at loading time)

sound reasonable to me.

-Peter



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