On a BIND 9.x server all authoritative name servers for a zone must have the same version of zone information.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-207596	BIND-9X-001613	SV-207596r612253_rule		Medium

Description
It is important to maintain the integrity of a zone file. The serial number of the SOA record is used to indicate to secondary name server that a change to the zone has occurred and a zone transfer should be performed. The serial number used in the SOA record provides the DNS administrator a method to verify the integrity of the zone file based on the serial number of the last update and ensure that all slave servers are using the correct zone file.

Description

It is important to maintain the integrity of a zone file. The serial number of the SOA record is used to indicate to secondary name server that a change to the zone has occurred and a zone transfer should be performed. The serial number used in the SOA record provides the DNS administrator a method to verify the integrity of the zone file based on the serial number of the last update and ensure that all slave servers are using the correct zone file.

STIG	Date
BIND 9.x Security Technical Implementation Guide	2021-06-23

Details

Check Text ( C-7851r283842_chk )
Verify that the SOA record is at the same version for all authoritative servers for a specific zone. With the assistance of the DNS administrator, identify each name server that is authoritative for each zone. Inspect each zone file that the server is authoritative for and identify the following: example.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.example.com. root.example.com. (17760704;serial) If the SOA "serial" numbers are not identical on each authoritative name server, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-7851r283842_chk )

Verify that the SOA record is at the same version for all authoritative servers for a specific zone.

With the assistance of the DNS administrator, identify each name server that is authoritative for each zone.

Inspect each zone file that the server is authoritative for and identify the following:

example.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.example.com. root.example.com. (17760704;serial)

If the SOA "serial" numbers are not identical on each authoritative name server, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-7851r283843_fix)
Edit the zone file. Update the SOA record serial number.