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From the
DNSSEC Wikipedia article
:
The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a suite of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) specifications for securing certain kinds of information provided by the Domain Name System (DNS) as used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It is a set of extensions to DNS which provide to DNS clients (resolvers) origin authentication of DNS data, authenticated denial of existence, and data integrity, but not availability or confidentiality.
Install a DNSSEC-validating resolver
To ensure DNSSEC is validated system-wide, setup a local DNS server that validates DNSSEC records and configure
resolv.conf(5)
to use it so that all DNS lookups go through it. See
Domain name resolution#DNS servers
for available validating resolvers. Note that some DNS servers require specific options to enable DNSSEC validation.
If you attempt to visit a site with a bogus (spoofed) IP address, the validating resolver will prevent you from receiving the invalid DNS data and your browser (or other application) will be told there is no such host. Since all DNS lookups go through the validating resolver, you do not need software that has DNSSEC support built-in when using this option.
Note
DNSSEC validation only protects against spoofed records for signed zones (domains). It does not protect unsigned domains
such as archlinux.org
.
Test the local validating resolver
From a terminal
To test if your local resolver properly validates DNSSEC, use a
DNS lookup utility
that supports setting the
DO
("DNSSEC OK") bit, such as
drill(1)
.
Test if the resolver does not return an answer for a domain with an invalid signature such as badsig.test.dnscheck.tools, rhybar.cz or dnssec-failed.org:
$ drill -D badsig.test.dnscheck.tools
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode:
SERVFAIL
, id: 5610
;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; badsig.test.dnscheck.tools.    IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:

;; Query time: 44 msec
;; EDNS: version 0; flags: do ; udp: 1232
; EDE: 6 (
DNSSEC Bogus
): 49 37 34 56 (I74V)
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1
...
The return code should be
SERVFAIL
(server failure), the answer section should be empty and flags should not contain
ad
(authenticated data).
Next, test a domain with a valid signature:
$ drill -D test.dnscheck.tools
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode:
NOERROR
, id: 20952
;; flags: qr rd ra
ad
; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; test.dnscheck.tools.   IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
test.dnscheck.tools.      5       IN      A       116.203.95.251
...

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:

;; Query time: 45 msec
;; EDNS: version 0; flags: do ; udp: 1232
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1
...
The query should return successfully and contain the
ad
(authenticated data) flag.
From a web browser
Note
To ensure you are testing the local resolver, make sure
application-level DNS
is not enabled in your web browser.
Multiple websites provide tests that check if your DNS resolver validates DNSSEC:
http://www.dnssec-or-not.com/
https://dnscheck.tools/
https://wander.science/projects/dns/dnssec-resolver-test/
https://internet.nl/connection/
Recursive query with DNSSEC validation
Note
To enable DNSSEC validation system-wide, set up a DNSSEC-validating resolver. See
#Install a DNSSEC-validating resolver
.
To validate DNSSEC for a domain without involving a recursive resolver, use a
DNS lookup utility
that can trace a domain starting from a the DNS root. E.g.
drill(1)
(from
ldns
) or
dig(1)
(from
bind
).
With
drill
, use the
-D
option to set the
DO
(DNSSEC OK) bit and the
-T
option to trace from the root name servers down to the domain being resolved:
$ drill -DT
example.com
Replace
example.com
with a domain name for which you want to preform DNSSEC validation.
For a domain with an invalid DNSSEC signature, the result should end with the following lines:
$ drill -DT badsig.test.dnscheck.tools
[B]
badsig.test.dnscheck.tools.   1       IN      A       116.203.95.251
;; Error: Bogus DNSSEC signature
;;[S] self sig OK; [B] bogus; [T] trusted; [U] unsigned
For a domain with a trusted signature, the result should end with the following lines:
$ drill -DT test.dnscheck.tools
[T]
test.dnscheck.tools.  1       IN      A       116.203.95.251
;;[S] self sig OK; [B] bogus; [T] trusted; [U] unsigned
See also
DNSSEC-Tools
DNSSEC Visualizer
- a tool for visualizing the status of a DNS zone.
Red Hat: Securing DNS Traffic with DNSSEC
- thorough article on implementing DNSSEC with
unbound
. Note that some tools are Red Hat specific and not found in Arch Linux.
Wikipedia:Domain Name System Security Extensions
dns_tools
— Tool to simplify managing DNSSEC zones.
https://github.com/gene-git/dns_tools
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