Restructure the section about dynamic zones and automatic signing:
- Focus on dynamic zones with 'auto-dnssec allow;'.
- Add a section about multi-signer models.
- Move NSEC3 related topics into one section.
- Remove any text that does not concern dynamic zones (mostly duplicate
text anyway).
Move bits from the "DNSSEC, Dynamic Zones, and Automatic Signing"
about denial of existence to a separate section below the "Key and
Signing Policy" section.
Add a brief introduction about denial of existence to this section.
Restructure the first part of the DNSSEC chapter that deals with zone
signing. Put dnssec-policy first. Mention Key and Signing Policy.
Only then talk about the DNSSEC tools.
Make clear that inline-signing stores DNSSEC records in a signed
version of the zone, using the zone's filename plus ".signed" extension.
Tell that dynamic zones store updates in the zone's filename.
DNSSEC records for dynamic zones also go in the zone's filename, unless
inline-signing is enabled.
Then, dnssec-policy assumes inline-signing, but only if the zone is
not dynamic.
Based on measurements done on BIND v9_19_2 using bank. TLD and a
synthetitc fullly signed zone, using RSASHA256 and ECDSAP256SHA256
algorithms with NSEC and NSEC3 without opt-out.
This section was completely out of date. Current measurements on dataset
Telco EU 2022-02 and BIND 9.19.1 indicate absolutely different results
than described in the old version of the text.
Guide in this repo is tied to latest version anyway, so let's not even
mention ancient versions of BIND.
This also solves the OpenSSL question because it is now mandatory for
build, which subsequently removes the entropy problem - so let's not
mention it either.
It turns out it is easier to regenerate Sphinx-mandated structure in
get_objects than to maintain two separate data structures. I should have
realized that before.
New directive .. statementlist:: generates table of statements in a
the given domain (named.conf or rndc.conf). The table contains link to
definition, short description, and also list of tags.
Short description and tags have to be provided by user using optional
parameters. E.g.:
.. statement:: max-cache-size
:tags: resolver, cache
:short: Short description
.. statementlist:: is currently not parametrized.
This modification is based on Sphinx "tutorial" extension "TODO".
The main trick is to use placeholder node for .. statementlist:: and
replace it with table at later stage, when all source files were
processed and all cross-references can be resolved.
Beware, some details in Sphinx docs are not up-to-date, it's better
to read Sphinx and docutil sources.
New and currently unused values can be provided using this syntax:
.. statement:: max-cache-size
:tags: resolver, cache
:short: Short description
The domain stores them in its internal structures for further use.
The extension provides a "Sphinx domain factory". Each new Sphinx domain
defines a namespace for configuration statements so named.conf and
rndc.conf do not clash. Currently the Sphinx domains are instantiated
twice and resuling domains are named "namedconf" and "rndcconf".
This commit adds a single new directive:
.. statement:: max-cache-size
It is namespaced like this:
.. namedconf:statement:: max-cache-size
This directive generates a new anchor for configuration statement and it
can be referenced like :any:`max-cache-size` (if the identifier is
unique), or more specific :namedconf:ref:`max-cache-size`.
It is based on Sphinx "tutorial" extension "recipe".
Beware, some details in Sphinx docs are not up-to-date, it's better
to read Sphinx and docutil sources.
After enormous amount of bikesheding about colors we decided to override
ReadTheDocs default style for literals (``literal`` in the RST markup).
Justification:
- The default RTD "light red literal on white background" is hard to
read. https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ reports that text
colored as rgb(231, 76, 60) on white background has insufficient
contrast.
- The ARM has enormous amount of literals all over the place and thus
one sentence can contain several black/red/black color changes. This
is distracting. As a consequence, the ARM looks like a Geronimo
Stilton book.
What we experimented with as replacements for red:
- Green - way too distracting
- Blue - too similar to "usual clickable link"
- Violet - too Geronimo Stilton style
- Brown - better but still distracting
After all the bikesheding we settled on black, i.e. the same as all
"normal" text. I.e. the color is now the same and literals are denoted
by monospaced font and a box around the literal. This has best contrast
and is way less distracting than it used to be.
This lead to a new problem: Internal references to "term definitions"
defined using directives like .. option:: were rendered almost the same
as literals:
- References: monospaced + box + bold + clickable
- Literals: monospaced + box To distinguish these two we added black
dotted underline to clickable references.
I hereby declare the bikeshed painted.
RTD style default never wraps <th> and <td> elements and that just does
not work for real sentences or any other long lines.
We can reconsider styling some tables separately, but at the moment we
do not have use for tables with long but unwrappable lines so it's
easier to allow wrapping globally.
It's wasteful to use 20 bytes and a pointer indirection to represent
two bits of information, so turn the struct into an enum. And change
the names of the enumeration constants to make the intent more clear.
This change introduces some inline functions into another header,
which confuses `gcovr` when it is trying to collect code coverage
statistics. So, in the CI job, copy more header files into a directory
where `gcovr` looks for them.
The aim is to get rid of the obsolete term "GLOBAL14" and instead just
refer to DNS name compression.
This is mostly mechanically renaming
from dns_(de)compress_(get|set)methods()
to dns_(de)compress_(get|set)permitted()
and replacing the related enum by a simple flag, because compression
is either on or off.
There was a proposal in the late 1990s that it might, but it turned
out to be unworkable. See RFC 6891, Extension Mechanisms for
DNS (EDNS(0)), section 5, Extended Label Types.
The remnants of the code that supported this in BIND are redundant.
These notes describe the initial compression design for BIND 9 in
1998/1999, when the IETF had some over-optimistic plans for using EDNS
to change the wire format of domain names. (Another example was
bitstring labels for IPv6 reverse DNS.) By the end of 2000 the EDNS
name compression schemes had been abandoned, and BIND 9's compression
code was rewritten to use a hash table.
There is nothing left of the implementation described here, and the
API functions are better described in `compress.h`, so these notes are
more misleading than helpful. Those who are interested in the past can
look at the version control history.
When there is no time in a key file, `dnssec-settime` will print
"UNSET", but to unset a time the user must specify "none" or "never".
This change allows "unset" or "UNSET" as well as "none" or "never".
The "UNSET" output remains the same to avoid compatibility problems
with wrapper scripts.
I have also re-synchronized the "Timing Options" sections of the man
pages.
Matthijs Mekking
Michal Nowak
Petr Špaček
Michał Kępień
Ondřej Surý
Evan Hunt
Aram Sargsyan
Tom Krizek
Tony Finch