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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi - <div><br><div><div>On 2 Aug 2011, at 16:45, Volker Janzen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>today I noticed a problem in my OpenDNSSEC installation, which I don't understand. I had expired signatures for many domains in OpenDNSSEC. I was not able to figure out what might have caused this. I just found this strange log entries, which I do not understand:<br><br>ods-auditor[7879]: Auditor started<br>ods-auditor[7879]: Auditor starting on <domain1>.de<br>ods-auditor[7882]: Auditor started<br>ods-auditor[7882]: Auditor starting on <domain2>.de<br>ods-auditor[7879]: SOA differs : from 2011080103 to 2011062380<br>ods-auditor[7879]: Auditing <domain1>.de zone : NSEC3 SIGNED<br>ods-auditor[7879]: Key (20188) has gone straight to active use without a prepublished phase<br>ods-auditor[7879]: Finished auditing <domain1>.de zone<br>ods-auditor[7882]: SOA differs : from 2011080103 to 2011062378<br>ods-auditor[7882]: Auditing <domain2>.de zone : NSEC3 SIGNED<br>ods-auditor[7882]: Key (40336) has gone straight to active use without a prepublished phase<br>ods-auditor[7882]: Finished auditing <domain2>.de zone<br><br>What might have cause this problem and how can I solve it now? The signatures are expired and I can't see any attempt of the signer to re-sign the zones.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div>It sounds like the auditor has seen a key in active use with no prepublished phase. According to the specification (section 3.6.5) :</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://trac.opendnssec.org/wiki/Signer/AuditorRequirements">http://trac.opendnssec.org/wiki/Signer/AuditorRequirements</a></div><div><br></div><div>this should raise an error. The error has stopped the signer from publishing the zone, so the signatures have expired.</div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alex.</div></body></html>