Is dnssec subject to intermittent failures?

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Dewayne Geraghty

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Jul 15, 2021, 8:50:16 PM7/15/21
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A few weeks ago I modified my named.conf to include
dnssec-validation auto;
after some testing we inserted into production.

Today my named refused to resolve with these messages:

In lame-servers.log (hundreds of these)
16-Jul-2021 06:04:47.412 broken trust chain resolving
'googlemail.l.google.com/A/IN'

and a little later in default.log
16-Jul-2021 06:17:09.018 client @0x2e3be400 127.0.5.91#47479
(freebsd.org.lookup.dkimwl.org): query failed (broken trust chain) for
freebsd.org.lookup.dkimwl.org/IN/A at query.c:6818
16-Jul-2021 06:19:00.604 client @0x2c66fc00 127.0.5.91#8845
(googlemail.com): query failed (broken trust chain) for
googlemail.com/IN/A at query.c:6818

After commenting out the validation line and HUPing named, it functioned
correctly.  I repeated by reapplying dnssec-validation and again refused
to resolve.

Is something in dnssec misbehaving of am I just being lucky?

Regards, Dewayne.
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John Levine

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Jul 15, 2021, 9:32:51 PM7/15/21
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It appears that Dewayne Geraghty <dew...@heuristicsystems.com.au> said:
>A few weeks ago I modified my named.conf to include
>dnssec-validation auto;
>after some testing we inserted into production.
>
>Today my named refused to resolve with these messages:
>
>In lame-servers.log (hundreds of these)
>16-Jul-2021 06:04:47.412 broken trust chain resolving
>'googlemail.l.google.com/A/IN'
>
>and a little later in default.log
>16-Jul-2021 06:17:09.018 client @0x2e3be400 127.0.5.91#47479
>(freebsd.org.lookup.dkimwl.org): query failed (broken trust chain) for
>freebsd.org.lookup.dkimwl.org/IN/A at query.c:6818
>16-Jul-2021 06:19:00.604 client @0x2c66fc00 127.0.5.91#8845
>(googlemail.com): query failed (broken trust chain) for
>googlemail.com/IN/A at query.c:6818

Something is screwed up at your end. None of those three domains are
signed with DNSSEC so there shouldn't be anything to fail.

Dewayne Geraghty

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Jul 15, 2021, 10:35:18 PM7/15/21
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