[Pdns-users] Regarding the warning about TSIG and AXFR requests

Mohamed Lrhazi lrhazi at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 02:18:11 UTC 2011


I would welcome RTFMs here... or is there a more appropriate list for
this question?

Thanks a lot,
Mohamed.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Mohamed Lrhazi <lrhazi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could some explain a bit more what the risks are, that this warning is
> referring  to:
>
> http://doc.powerdns.com/tsig-outbound-notify-axfr.html
>
> Warning
> PowerDNS for now only verifies the TSIG signature on the first AXFR
> 'message', which helps for access control, but does not provide 100.0%
> protection of subsequent AXFR zone content messages.
>
> Is this saying that one would not be protected from content
> modification/injection with this feature enabled?
>
> If so, what would be my options to secure slave/master communication,
> with pdns acting as slave?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Mohamed.
>



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