Re: Followup to your reply on the IETF-SMTP mailing list

Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smtp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:40:01PM +0200, Kaspar Etter wrote:

> On 24 May 2021, at 12:43, Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> And the beauty of TLSA records is that the MX operator maintains them. All I
> >> have to do as a domain owner is to deploy/enable DNSSEC on my domain.
> > 
> > You're right.  I assumed the TLSA record was not a CNAME.  I guess you mean:
> > 
> > _25._tcp.my-domain.example. IN CNAME _25._tcp.MX-operator.example.
> 
> No, I meant that DANE-aware ESMTP clients first resolve the MX
> indirection and look for TLSA records on the “target/MX” domain.

Indeed, e.g. this is how it works form ~1.2 million domains that are
MX-hosted by one.com MX hosts.  The hosted domain just needs to be
DNSSEC-signed and to point its MX records at the provider.  The DANE
TLSA RRs and all responsibility for managing them are on the MX host side:

    simonvikstrom.se. IN MX 10 mx1.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. ; NoError AD=1
    simonvikstrom.se. IN MX 10 mx2.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. ; NoError AD=1
    simonvikstrom.se. IN MX 10 mx3.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. ; NoError AD=1
    ;
    mx1.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. IN A 185.164.14.86 ; NoError AD=1
    _25._tcp.mx1.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. IN TLSA 3 1 1 3b8e75c279f1dda9ca462b79077ba25b63f4a016d01e3fbbca6ab6620ae04421 ; NoError AD=1
    _25._tcp.mx1.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. IN TLSA 3 1 1 ab91ea8a9ae477de45828410679aa1e6c290b3a28835f47e3eac9d0bd1894c2f ; NoError AD=1
    ;
    mx2.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. IN A 185.164.14.87 ; NoError AD=1
    _25._tcp.mx2.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. IN TLSA 3 1 1 3b8e75c279f1dda9ca462b79077ba25b63f4a016d01e3fbbca6ab6620ae04421 ; NoError AD=1
    _25._tcp.mx2.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. IN TLSA 3 1 1 ab91ea8a9ae477de45828410679aa1e6c290b3a28835f47e3eac9d0bd1894c2f ; NoError AD=1
    ;
    mx3.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. IN A 185.164.14.88 ; NoError AD=1
    _25._tcp.mx3.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. IN TLSA 3 1 1 3b8e75c279f1dda9ca462b79077ba25b63f4a016d01e3fbbca6ab6620ae04421 ; NoError AD=1
    _25._tcp.mx3.pub.mailpod7-cph3.one.com. IN TLSA 3 1 1 ab91ea8a9ae477de45828410679aa1e6c290b3a28835f47e3eac9d0bd1894c2f ; NoError AD=1

-- 
    Viktor.

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