Re: Extending UPDATE to add/remove zones

Jay Daley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.dnsext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17/10/2013, at 11:12 AM, "Hosnieh Rafiee" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry I forgot to submit it to the list ...
> 
>> No Hosnieh I'm not falling for that.  If you think there is any
> overlap/conflict/interaction between my proposed work and the cga-tsig draft
> then please >identify it and I will address it.  
> 
>> To be clear, since it appears to me that you might not have understood, the
> only idea I am floating around TSIG is that a DNSKEY record is given to a
>> nameserver with the intention that is should use to authenticate (via TSIG)
> a zone transfer request for a new zone that it is asked to serve as a slave.
> 
> I am attempting to rephrase my question. Correct me if I am wrong... I think
> DNSKEY is for DNSSEC and not for TSIG. TSIG uses shared secret and it is
> added to DNS configuration file (isn't stored in any record in database) .
> dissimilar to a part of DNSSEC it is not public key cryptography. This means
> that you cannot add the shared secret in DNSKEY for authentication. Security
> problem... TSIG might use TKEY which is different than DNSKEY. 

Yes it probably ought to be TKEY since this is what it is specifically designed for and not a DNSKEY but DNSKEY is so much simpler so I was just trying it on ...

> Secondly, I guess addressing TSIG here does not really make sense as you are
> not fully addressing security but you're planning to make the DNS update
> more efficient. So, I suggest that you only think about  making the Update
> more efficient and let other approaches like other RRs TSIG, cga-tsig secure
> your approach. 

You've misunderstood why the TSIG key appears in this message.  I am investigating adding new functionality to UPDATE and part of that new functionality requires the transmission of a TSIG key as data inside the packet, for the receiver to use elsewhere.  This TSIG key is not used in this transaction.

Jay  

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