Microsoft your DNS servers are broken

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Tue Sep 11 07:05:33 UTC 2018


While we are talking about DNS server that are broken, Microsoft your servers are as well.  As none
of the zones you serve are DNSSEC signed there isn’t as much breakage possible but there are still
interoperability problems and unnecessary additional traffic.  It’s not like the EDNS specification
is complicated.

The microsoftonline servers will cause DNSSEC validation to fail if they ever serve a DNSSEC signed
zone in this state.  The FORMERR will cause EDNS servers to fallback to plain DNS and the validators
won’t get the records they need.

The azure servers cause problems for anyone deploying a new EDNS options as they have to cope with
your servers incorrectly echoing back the option.  Additionally if EDNS(1) is ever deployed there is
a good chance that resolvers will assume the broken answers indicate that there is no data at the
name.

Mark

cityofharrison-mi.gov. @207.46.15.59 (ns1.bdm.microsoftonline.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok edns at 512=ok ednsopt=formerr,echoed edns1opt=formerr,version-not-zero,echoed do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=formerr,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
cityofharrison-mi.gov. @2a01:111:f406:1804::59 (ns1.bdm.microsoftonline.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok edns at 512=ok ednsopt=formerr,echoed edns1opt=formerr,version-not-zero,echoed do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=formerr,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
cityofharrison-mi.gov. @191.232.83.138 (ns3.bdm.microsoftonline.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok edns at 512=ok ednsopt=formerr,echoed edns1opt=formerr,version-not-zero,echoed do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=formerr,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
cityofharrison-mi.gov. @2a01:111:f406:b400::22 (ns3.bdm.microsoftonline.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok edns at 512=ok ednsopt=formerr,echoed edns1opt=formerr,version-not-zero,echoed do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=formerr,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
cityofharrison-mi.gov. @157.56.81.41 (ns2.bdm.microsoftonline.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok edns at 512=ok ednsopt=formerr,echoed edns1opt=formerr,version-not-zero,echoed do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=formerr,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
cityofharrison-mi.gov. @2a01:111:f406:3403::41 (ns2.bdm.microsoftonline.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=ok edns at 512=ok ednsopt=formerr,echoed edns1opt=formerr,version-not-zero,echoed do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=formerr,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok

clintoncounty-ia.gov. @13.107.24.7 (ns3-07.azure-dns.org.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=noerror,badversion edns at 512=ok ednsopt=echoed edns1opt=noerror,badversion do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=ok,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
clintoncounty-ia.gov. @2a01:111:4000::7 (ns3-07.azure-dns.org.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=noerror,badversion edns at 512=ok ednsopt=echoed edns1opt=noerror,badversion do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=ok,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
clintoncounty-ia.gov. @13.107.160.7 (ns4-07.azure-dns.info.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=noerror,badversion edns at 512=ok ednsopt=echoed edns1opt=noerror,badversion do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=ok,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
clintoncounty-ia.gov. @2620:1ec:bda::7 (ns4-07.azure-dns.info.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=noerror,badversion edns at 512=ok ednsopt=echoed edns1opt=noerror,badversion do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=ok,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
clintoncounty-ia.gov. @64.4.48.7 (ns2-07.azure-dns.net.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=noerror,badversion edns at 512=ok ednsopt=echoed edns1opt=noerror,badversion do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=ok,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
clintoncounty-ia.gov. @2620:1ec:8ec::7 (ns2-07.azure-dns.net.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=noerror,badversion edns at 512=ok ednsopt=echoed edns1opt=noerror,badversion do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=ok,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
clintoncounty-ia.gov. @40.90.4.7 (ns1-07.azure-dns.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=noerror,badversion edns at 512=ok ednsopt=echoed edns1opt=noerror,badversion do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=ok,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
clintoncounty-ia.gov. @2603:1061::7 (ns1-07.azure-dns.com.): dns=ok edns=ok edns1=noerror,badversion edns at 512=ok ednsopt=echoed edns1opt=noerror,badversion do=ok ednsflags=ok optlist=ok,subnet signed=ok ednstcp=ok
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Mark Andrews, ISC
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742              INTERNET: marka at isc.org




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