From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/{chrony, ntp, openntpd}: turn off DNSSEC validation
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 22:58:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210716225832.327f2fee@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210708111627.3795182-1-james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 05:16:27 -0600
James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have a chicken and egg problem: validation of DNSSEC signatures
> doesn't work without a correct clock, but to set the correct clock we
> need to contact NTP servers which requires resolving a hostname, which
> would normally require DNSSEC validation.
>
> Let's break the cycle by excluding NTP hostname resolution from
> validation for now.
>
> Details:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/abf4e5c1d3ad767bc0ed67883e8e4d916af095ec
>
> Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
> ---
> package/chrony/chrony.service | 4 ++++
> package/ntp/ntpd.service | 4 ++++
> package/openntpd/ntpd.service | 4 ++++
> 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
I'm not an expert in this area, but the explanation seems sensible, and
nobody complained so far, so I've applied to master. Thanks!
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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2021-07-08 11:16 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/{chrony, ntp, openntpd}: turn off DNSSEC validation James Hilliard
2021-07-16 20:58 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2021-08-03 9:19 ` Peter Korsgaard
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