zkt-signer — Secure DNS zone signing tool
zkt-signer
[−L file] [−V view]
[−c file] [−O
optstr] [−fhnr] [−v
[−v]] −N named.conf
[zone ...]
zkt-signer [−L file]
[−V view] [−c file]
[−O optstr] [−fhnr]
[−v [−v]] [−D
directory] [zone ...]
zkt-signer [−L file]
[−V view] [−c file]
[−O optstr] [−fhnr]
[−v [−v]] −o
origin [zonefile]
The zkt-signer command is a wrapper around dnssec-signzone(8) and dnssec-keygen(8) to sign a zone and manage the necessary zone keys. It is able to increment the serial number before signing the zone and can trigger named(8) to reload the signed zone file. The command controls several secure zones and, if started in regular intervals via cron(8), can do all that stuff automatically.
In the most
useful usage scenario the command will be called with option
−N to read the secure zones out of the given
named.conf file. If you have a configuration file
with views, you have to use option -V viewname or --view
viewname to specify the name of the view. Alternately you
could link the executable file to a second name like
zkt-signer-viewname and use that command to specify
the name of the view.
All master zone statements will be scanned for filenames
ending with ".signed". These zones will be checked
if the necessary zone- and key signing keys are existent and
fresh enough to be used in the signing process. If one or
more out-dated keys are found, new keying material will be
generated via the dnssec-keygen(8) command and the
old keys will be marked as depreciated. So the command do
anything needed for a zone key rollover as defined by
[2].
If the resigning interval is reached or any new key must be announced, the serial number of the zone will be incremented and the dnssec-signzone(8) command will be evoked to sign the zone. After that, if the option −r is given, the rndc(8) command will be called to reload the zone on the nameserver.
In the second
form of the command it is possible to specify a directory
tree with the option −D dir. Every
secure zone found in a subdirectory below dir will be
signed. However, it is also possible to reduce the signing
to those zones given as arguments.
If −D is ommitted (and neither −N
nor −oorigin is specified) the default
directory specified in the dnssec.conf file by the
parameter zonedir will be used as top level
directory.
−L file|dir, −−logfile=file|dir
Specify the name of a log file
or a directory where logfiles are created with a name like
zkt-YYYY-MM-DDThhmmssZ.log. If the
argument is not an absolute path name and a zone directory
is specified in the config file, this will be prepended to
the given name. This option is also settable in the
dnssec.conf file via the parameter LogFile.
The default is no file logging, but error logging to syslog
with facility USER at level ERROR is enabled
by default. These parameters are settable via the config
file parameter SyslogFacility,
SyslogLevel, LogFile and
Loglevel.
The additional parameter VerboseLog specifies the
verbosity (0|1|2) of messages that will be logged with level
DEBUG to file and syslog.
−V view, −−view=view
Try to read the default configuration out of a file named dnssec-<view>.conf . Instead of specifying the −V or --view option every time, it is also possible to create a hard- or softlink to the executable file with an additional name like zkt-signer-<view> .
−c file, −−config=file
Read configuration values out of the specified file. Otherwise the default config file is read or build-in defaults will be used.
−O optstr, −−config-option=optstr
Set any config file option via the commandline. Several config file options can be specified via the argument string but have to be delimited by semicolon (or newline).
−f, −−force
Force a resigning of the zone, regardless if the resigning interval is reached or new keys must be announced.
−n, −−noexec
Don’t execute the dnssec-signzone(8) command. Currently this option is of very limited usage.
−r, −−reload
Reload the zone via rndc(8) after successful signing. In a production environment it is recommended to use this option to be sure that a freshly signed zone will be immediately propagated. However, that’s only feasable if named runs on the signing machine, which is not recommended.
−v, −−verbose
Verbose mode (recommended). A second −v will be a little more verbose.
−h, −−help
Print out the online help.
zkt-signer −N /var/named/named.conf −r −v −v
Sign all secure zones found in the named.conf file and, if necessary, trigger a reload of the zone. Print some explanatory remarks on stdout.
zkt-signer −D zonedir/example.net. −f −v −v
Force the signing of the zone found in the directory zonedir/example.net . Do not reload the zone.
zkt-signer −D zonedir −f −v −v example.net.
Same as above.
zkt-signer −f −v −v example.net.
Same as above if the dnssec.conf file contains the path of the parent directory of the example.net zone.
zkt-signer −f −v −v −o example.net. zone.db
Same as above if we are in the directory containing the example.net files.
zkt-signer −−config-option=’ResignInterval 1d; Sigvalidity 28h; \
ZSKlifetime 2d;’
−v −v −o example.net. zone.db
Sign the example.net zone but override some config file
values with parameters given on the commandline.
Create a separate directory for every secure zone.
This is useful because there are many additional files needed to secure a zone. Besides the zone file (zone.db), there is a signed zone file (zone.db.signed), a minimum of four files containing the key material, a file called dnskey.db with the current used keys, and the dsset- and keyset-files created by the dnssec-signzone(8) command. So in summary there is a minimum of nine files used per secure zone. For every additional key there are two extra files and every delegated subzone creates also two or three files.
Name the directory just like the zone.
That’s only needed if you want to use the zkt-signer command in directory mode (−D). Then the name of the zone will be parsed out of the directory name.
Change the name of the zone file to zone.db
Otherwise you have to set the name via the dnssec.conf parameter zonefile, or you have to use the option −o to name the zone and specify the zone file as argument.
Add the name of the signed zonefile to the named.conf file
The filename is the name of the zone file with the extension .signed. Create an empty file with the name zone.db.signed in the zone directory.
Include the keyfile in the zone.
The name of the keyfile is settable by the dnssec.conf parameter keyfile . The default is dnskey.db .