NXDOMAIN accepted despite NSEC not covering wildcard?

[Viktor Dukhovni]

Please see:

  http://dnsviz.net/d/_25._tcp.mx1.marketconservative.com/WmzVYw/dnssec/

The NXDomain response contains NSEC records that cover

	_tcp.mx1.marketconservative.com

but NOT

	*.mx1.marketconservative.com

Here are the responses from the remote servers with RRSIGs trimmed:

    @ns1.psyclonecontacts.net.[52.1.81.184]
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 22871
    ;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 5
    ;_25._tcp.mx1.marketconservative.com. IN    TLSA
    marketconservative.com.     SOA     ns1.psyclonecontacts.net. sysadmin.marketconservative.com. [...]
    dk._domainkey.mx1.marketconservative.com. NSEC mx2.marketconservative.com. [...]
    marketconservative.com.     NSEC    _dmarc.marketconservative.com. [...]
    
    @ns2.psyclonecontacts.net.[52.1.132.80]
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 39242
    ;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 5
    ;_25._tcp.mx1.marketconservative.com. IN    TLSA
    marketconservative.com.     SOA     ns1.psyclonecontacts.net. sysadmin.marketconservative.com. [...]
    dk._domainkey.mx1.marketconservative.com. NSEC mx2.marketconservative.com. [...]
    marketconservative.com.     NSEC    _dmarc.marketconservative.com. [...]

Note that the second NSEC record excludes an (irrelevant) zone apex wildcard,
but not a wildcard below "mx1", so it looks to me like DNSViz may be correct,
in which case unbound should not accept this response.  And yet unbound
returns NXDomain with the AD bit set:

  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 51438
  ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 1

  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;_25._tcp.mx1.marketconservative.com. IN        TLSA

  ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
  marketconservative.com. SOA     ns1.psyclonecontacts.net. sysadmin.marketconservative.com. 2017110101 36000 3600 1296000 3600
  dk._domainkey.mx1.marketconservative.com. NSEC mx2.marketconservative.com. TXT RRSIG NSEC
  marketconservative.com. NSEC    _dmarc.marketconservative.com. A NS SOA MX TXT LOC RRSIG NSEC DNSKEY

And ditto with unbound-host:

  $ unbound-host -v -f /usr/local/etc/unbound/root.key -t tlsa _25._tcp.mx1.marketconservative.com
  Host _25._tcp.mx1.marketconservative.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN). (secure)

I am using unbound 1.6.8 on FreeBSD.

-- 
	Viktor.