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Re: DNSSEC and ISPs faking DNS responses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Palmer)
Fri Nov 13 23:46:27 2015

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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:46:14 +1100
From: Matt Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:51:52AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> So what do we do? We currently point the blocked domains to addresses of
> a web server with a short explanation.  But what if the domains were
> signed?  We could let validating servers return SERVFAIL.  But I'd
> really prefer avoiding that for the simple reason that there is no way
> to distinguish that SERVFAIL from one caused by e.g. a domain owner
> configuration error.

Perhaps we need to expand RCODE to be the full octet, and indicate "blocked
for legal reasons" with RCODE value 25.

- Matt


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