DNSSEC_Support

DNSSEC_Support#

Overview#

Please note that DNSSEC zone signing and DNSSEC records validation are two different features, which can coexist without each other.

DNSSEC zone signing#

DNSSEC zone signing allows protect your DNS records. IPA supports zone signing without additional manual configuration. You just need to set up just one IPA DNS server as DNSSEC key master using ipa-dns-install --dnssec-master command, and enable particular zones to be signed using dnszone-mod example.com. --dnssec=true command.

DNSSEC records validation#

DNSSEC records validation allows to validate signed DNS records from other servers to protect you against spoofed addresses. IPA installer enables DNSSEC validation by default. However, for successful validation it is crucial to have properly DNSSEC configured forwarders. IPA checks global forwarders and if forwarders don’t support DNSSEC, DNSSEC validation on particular server will be disabled (during installation) or a warning message to disable DNSSEC validation manually will be shown (dnsconfig-mod).

Note: IPA 4.2 checks forwarders in forwarding zones too (dnsforwardzone-*).

Use Cases#

Zone records signing#

IPA allows to enable zones signing per zone. IPA automatically does the most of steps that had to be done manually before.

All required steps are:

  • install exactly the one DNSSEC master server (ipa-dns-install --dnssec-master)

  • enable zone signing (ipa dnszone-mod example.com --dnssec=true)

  • create DS record in the parent zone

  • verify DNSSEC chain of trust (drill -TD example.com. -k /etc/trusted-key.key)

More information can be found here: Howto/DNSSEC.

Troubleshooting: DNSSEC signing does not work.

Records validation#

Record validation is done by the BIND server itself.

IPA enables records validation by default during installation if all global forwarders passed DNSSEC compability test that is done by installer. If any of configured forwarders does not support DNSSEC, installer disables records validation.

If a global forwarder or a forward zone that does not support DNSSEC is added later, records validation must be manually disabled on all IPA servers.

To manually enable/disable record validation, option dnssec-validation in /etc/named.conf must be configured in following way:

  • enable validation:

options {
    dnssec-validation yes;
}

  • disable validation:

options {
    dnssec-validation no;
}

Adding forwarders#

If the DNSSEC validation is enabled, forwarders must support DNSSEC.

New check was implemented for global forwarders and forward zones (IPA 4.2) that detects improper DNSSEC configuration on forwarders.

Design#

Exhausting information about DNSSEC Support (Low level)

Schema#

Logical structure of entries is listed here.

Schema for DNSSEC metada is defined here.

Schema for keys is defined here.

Detection if forwarders are DNSSEC capable#

Detection was improved in IPA 4.2, this section describes IPA 4.2 only.

Global forwarders#

Check is done against the root zone.

  1. check if the record “. IN SOA” @forwarder is resolvable (flags: RD)

    1. failed: forwarder is not working

    2. pass: continue with next step

  2. check if the record “. IN SOA” @forwarder with EDNS0 is resolvable (flags: RD):

    1. failed: forwarder does not support EDNS0 -> does not support DNSSEC

    2. pass: continue with next step

  3. check if the records “. IN SOA” @forwarder with EDNS0 has DNSSEC signatures (flags: RD, DO)

    1. failed: forwarder does not support DNSSEC

    2. pass: forwarder supports DNSSEC

Forward zones#

Check is done against the forward zone. Check consists of 2 steps:

  1. check before forwarder is added into LDAP/DNS

  2. check after forwarder was added into LDAP/DNS

This check is not 100% reliable, but should catch the most issues. Also there can be false positive results and DNS administrator should check each forwarder. Check is executed just against one of many possible IPA DNS servers. This may cause, if any of the untested IPA DNS servers are configured different then these servers may not resolve forward zone properly.

Steps:

  1. check if the record “fwzone IN SOA” @forwarder is resolvable (flags: RD)

    1. failed: forwarder is not working

    2. pass: continue with next step

  2. check if the record “fwzone IN SOA” @forwarder with EDNS0 is resolvable (flags: RD):

    1. failed: forwarder does not support EDNS0 -> does not support DNSSEC

    2. pass: continue with next step

  3. check if the record “fwzone IN SOA” @forwarder with EDNS0 has DNSSEC signatures (flags: RD, DO)

    1. failed: forwarder does not support DNSSEC

    2. pass: forwarder supports DNSSEC

  4. add forwarder into LDAP/DNS

  5. get answer “fwzone IN SOA” @IPA_DNS with EDNS0 (flags: RD, DO, CD); store result into ans_cd

  6. check if the record “fwzone IN SOA” @IPA_DNS with EDNS0 (flags: RD, DO) is resolvable; store result into ans_do

    1. NXDOMAIN: DNSSEC validation error, records was marked as not trusted.

    2. pass: continue with next step

  7. compare if ans_cd and ans_do contains the same answer (same values)

    1. failed: values differ, zone is probably “shadowed”, DNSSEC validation may not work

    2. pass: DNSSEC validation seems to be working with this forwarder and forward zone

Implementation#

How DNS zone gets signed in IPA#

  1. All DNS replicas During replica installation, a keypair is generated in local HSM and public key is then stored into LDAP.

    1. DNSSEC key master If the replica is DNSSEC key master, it also generates DNSSEC master key and stores this key into local HSM.

  2. User enables DNSSEC signing for given zone ($ ipa dnszone-mod --dnssec=true zone.example). This sets boolean attribute idnsSecInlineSigning in zone object to TRUE.

  3. DNSSEC key master On the DNSSEC key master replica, change in idnsSecInlineSigning attribute is detected (using SyncRepl protocol) by ipa-dnskeysyncd daemon running in MASTER mode. (Master mode = environment variable ISMASTER is set to ‘1’.) Master ipa-dnskeysyncd daemon calls command ods-enforcer zone add (ods-ksmutil zone add on RHEL 7) and adds the new zone to OpenDNSSEC Enforcer’s database running on the same machine.

  4. DNSSEC key master OpenDNSSEC generates keys according to policy /etc/opendnssec/kasp.xml. When the key is generated or changed, OpenDNSSEC calls ods-signer command which through socket /var/run/opendnssec/engine.sock activates ipa-ods-exporter on the DNSSEC key master replica.

  5. DNSSEC key master ipa-ods-exporter is executed on DNSSEC key master. It does following:

    1. Key material is synchronized:

      1. Downloads replica keys from LDAP into local HSM on the master.

      2. Encrypt master keys in local HSM using replica keys. Copy of master key encrypted using each replica public key is stored in LDAP.

      3. All new or modified zone keys from local HSM are encrypted using the master key and uploaded to LDAP.

    2. Key metadata like key validity etc. are sychronized from OpenDNSSEC database to LDAP.

  6. Other replicas which are not DNSSEC key master ipa-dnskeysyncd daemon detects using SyncRepl protocol that key metadata were changed:

    1. executes ipa-dnskeysync-replica

      1. Downloads all master keys from LDAP and decrypts them using replica private key. Master keys are stored in local HSM.

      2. Downloads all zone keys from LDAP, decrypts them using DNS master key, and stores them in local HSM.

    2. ipa-dnskeysyncd daemon generates BIND key files (calls dnssec-keyfromlabel for each key)

    3. ipa-dnskeysyncd daemon informs BIND about new keys by calling rndc sign

  7. All DNS replicas BIND (bind-pkcs11 required) reads key metadata and uses local HSM to sign the DNS data.

SoftHSM configuration#

Each replica creates own local SoftHSM storage. IPA uses own configuration of SoftHSM. To access right database you need to configure environment variable SOFTHSM2_CONF.

$ export SOFTHSM2_CONF=/etc/ipa/dnssec/softhsm2.conf

SoftHSM database is initialized during installation (or upgrade) with following command:

$ softhsm2-util --init-token --slot=0 --label=ipaDNSSEC --pin=``\ `` --so-pin=

and values are stored in files:

/var/lib/ipa/dnssec/softhsm_pin
/etc/ipa/dnssec/softhsm_pin_so

SoftHSM tokens are stored in directory:

/var/lib/ipa/dnssec/tokens

OpenDNSSEC configuration#

OpenDNSSEC is required only at IPA DNSSEC master server.

Default key parameters:

  • KSK

    • Key Length: 3072

    • Lifetime: 2 years

    • Algorithm: 8 (RSASHA256)

  • ZSK

    • Key Length: 2048

    • Lifetime: 90 days

    • Algorithm: 8 (RSASHA256)

Default values can be changed in kasp.xml file (/etc/opendnssec/kasp.xml).

Directory permissions#

DNSSEC related files has to be accessible for several daemons, under ods (openddnssec) and named user. Following list shows required file modes, owner and group per directory/file:

drwxr-x---.  ods named    /var/lib/ipa/dnssec
-rwxrwx---.  ods named    /var/lib/ipa/dnssec/softhsm_pin
drwxrws---.  ods named    /var/lib/ipa/dnssec/tokens
drwxrws---.  ods named    /var/lib/ipa/dnssec/tokens/*
-rwxrwx---.  ods named    /var/lib/ipa/dnssec/tokens/``\ ``/*
-rw-rw----.  root ods     /etc/opendnssec/*
-rw-rw----.  ods ods      /var/opendnssec/kasp.db
drwxrwx---.  ods ods      /var/opendnssec/signconf
drwxrwx---.  ods ods      /var/opendnssec/signed
drwxrwx---.  ods ods      /var/opendnssec/tmp

Note: Tokens created during installation (upgrade) has root:root owner group. Is required to modify all files and subdirs in token’s directory to proper mode, owner and group.

LDAP default PKCS#11 values#

If any LDAP attribute is not present in entry, then a particular default value is used.

DNSSEC Master Key#

PKCS#11 attribute

LDAP attribute

default value

CKA_COPYABLE

ipk11Copyable

true

CKA_DECRYPT

ipk11Decrypt

false

CKA_DERIVE

ipk11Derive

false

CKA_ENCRYPT

ipk11Encrypt

false

CKA_EXTRACTABLE

ipk11Extractable

true

CKA_MODIFIABLE

ipk11Modifiable

true

CKA_PRIVATE

ipk11Private

true

CKA_SENSITIVE

ipk11Sensitive

true

CKA_SIGN

ipk11Sign

false

CKA_UNWRAP

ipk11Unwrap

true

CKA_VERIFY

ipk11Verify

false

CKA_WRAP

ipk11Wrap

true

CKA_WRAP_WITH_TRUSTED

ipk11WrapWithTrusted

false

Replica Private Key#

PKCS#11 attribute

LDAP attribute

default value

CKA_ALWAYS_AUTHENTICATE

ipk11AlwaysAuthenticate

false

CKA_COPYABLE

ipk11Copyable

true

CKA_DECRYPT

ipk11Decrypt

false

CKA_DERIVE

ipk11Derive

false

CKA_EXTRACTABLE

ipk11Extractable

false

CKA_MODIFIABLE

ipk11Modifiable

true

CKA_PRIVATE

ipk11Private

true

CKA_SENSITIVE

ipk11Sensitive

true

CKA_SIGN_RECOVER

ipk11Sign

false

cka_sign_recover

ipk11SignRecover

false

CKA_UNWRAP

ipk11Unwrap

true

CKA_WRAP_WITH_TRUSTED

ipk11WrapWithTrusted

false

Replica Public Key#

PKCS#11 attribute

LDAP attribute

default value

CKA_COPYABLE

ipk11Copyable

true

CKA_DERIVE

ipk11Derive

false

CKA_ENCRYPT

ipk11Encrypt

false

CKA_MODIFIABLE

ipk11Modifiable

true

CKA_PRIVATE

ipk11Private

true

CKA_TRUSTED

ipk11Trusted

false

CKA_VERIFY

ipk11Verify

false

CKA_VERIFY_RECOVER

ipk11VerifyRecover

false

CKA_WRAP

ipk11Wrap

true

DNSSEC Master Key Attributes#

Master key is generated only by IPA DNSSEC Master server, with following values (default values are not listed):

  • CK_MECHANISM: CKM_AES_KEY_GEN

  • CKA_LABEL: “dnssec-master”

  • CKA_ID: 16B pseudo-random value (unique per secret key)

  • CKA_VALUE_LEN: 16 (keylength)

  • CKA_TOKEN: true

  • CKA_WRAP: true

  • CKA_UNWRAP: true

Disabling Old Master Key#

If new master key is generated, the old key must be disable by setting attribute CKA_WRAP to false.

Replica Keys Attributes#

Each replica generates own replica key pair during install (upgrade) with following values (attributes with default values are not listed):

  • Both (Private and Public Key):

    • CK_MECHANISM: CKM_RSA_PKCS_KEY_PAIR_GEN

    • CKA_LABEL: a canonicalized absolute replica domain name

    • CKA_ID: 16B pseudo-random value (same for value for private and public key), this value is unique per a key pair

    • CKA_TOKEN: true

  • Private Key:

    • CKA_UNWRAP: true

    • CKA_SENSITIVE: true

    • CKA_EXTRACTABLE: false

  • Public Key:

    • CKA_PUBLIC_EXPONENT: 65537 (RFC 6376 section 3.3.1)

    • CKA_MODULUS_BITS: 2048

    • CKA_VERIFY: false

    • CKA_VERIFY_RECOVER: false

    • CKA_WRAP: true

Public replica key is also stored in LDAP database:

dn: ipk11UniqueId=``\ ``,cn=keys,cn=sec,cn=dns,dc=example,dc=com
objectclass: ipk11Object
objectclass: ipk11PublicKey
objectclass: ipaPublicKeyObject
objectclass: top
ipk11UniqueId:
ipk11Label:
ipaPublicKey: <public key in SubjectPublicKeyInfo (RFC 5280) form>
ipk11Id': ``\ ``,
ipk11Wrap: true
ipk11Verify: false
ipk11VerifyRecover: false

Disabling old replica keys#

If a new key is generated, old public keys must be disabled. This is achieved by setting CKA_WRAP (ipk11Wrap) attribute to false in both LDAP and local SoftHSM database.

Private keys should stay unchanged, to allow unwrap already wrapped keys in LDAP.

Dependencies#

  • Softhsm > 2

  • opendnssec

Backup and Restore#

Following directories/files must be backed up:

  • IPA DNSSEC directory (/var/lib/ipa/dnssec)

    • directory containing tokens (tokens/)

    • file containing softhsm user pin (softhsm_pin)

  • system configuration of ipa-dnskeysyncd daemon (/etc/sysconfig/ipa-dnskeysyncd)

  • system configuration of ipa-ods-exporter (/etc/sysconfig/ipa-ods-exporter)

  • system configuration of OpenDNSSEC (/etc/sysconfig/ods)

  • security officer PIN (/etc/ipa/dnssec/softhsm_pin_so)

  • OpenDNSSEC configuration file (/etc/opendnssec/conf.xml)

  • OpendDNSSEC KASP database configuration file (/etc/opendnssec/kasp.xml)

  • KASP database (/var/opendnssec/kasp.db)

  • zone list file (/etc/opendnssec/zonelist.xml)

  • softhsm configuration file (/etc/ipa/dnssec/softhsm2.conf)

  • ipa-ods-exporter keytab (/etc/ipa/dnssec/ipa-ods-exporter.keytab)

  • ipa-dnskeysyncd keytab (/etc/ipa/dnssec/ipa-dnskeysyncd.keytab)

Feature Management#

UI

N/A

CLI

Enabling DNSSEC signing:

  • ipa dnszone-add --dnssec=true

  • ipa dnszone-mod --dnssec=true

Disabling DNSSEC signing:

  • ipa dnszone-mod --dnssec=false

Installers#

Install DNSSEC master:

  • ipa-dns-install --dnssec-master

Disable DNSSEC master (IPA 4.2):

  • ipa-dns-install --disable-dnssec-master

Reenable DNSSEC master (IPA 4.2):

  • ipa-dns-install --dnssec-master --kasp-db=<path to kasp.db file from disabled master>

Configuration#

N/A

Upgrade#

Required enabling/configuring ipa-dnskeysyncd service instance on each DNS replica

How to test#

Follow instructions in this howto, to test DNSSEC:

  • install DNSSEC master

  • enable signing per zone

  • create root zone, create zone and verify chain of trust

Test Plan#

Prerequisites#

QE is going to need DNS servers which has option “dnssec-enable yes;” in named.conf. This option has to be enabled on the whole chain of forwarders used by testing machines.

Tests#

Integration DNSSEC test covers:

  • Test if synchronization of keys works between replicas

    • Master server is DNSSEC key master

    • New replica is DNSSEC key master

  • Test if zones in IPA are signed on all replicas:

    • Zone created on master (with –dnssec=true)

    • Zone created on replica (with –dnssec=true)

    • Disable zone signing & re-enable DNSSEC signing for zone on master

    • Disable zone signing & re-enable DNSSEC signing for zone on replica

  • Test DNSSEC chain of trust

    • Create root zone (with –dnssec=true) and test if it is signed

    • Create example.zone. (with –dnssec=true) and test if it is signed.

    • Export DS record of example.zone. to IPA’s root zone

    • test if DNSSEC chain of signatures is trusted (using drill command)

  • Test migration DNSSEC master

RFE Author#

Martin Basti <mbasti@redhat.com>

Petr Spacek <pspacek@redhat.com>

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