- Many dispatch attributes can be set implicitly instead of being passed
in. we can infer whether to set DNS_DISPATCHATTR_TCP or _UDP from
whether we're calling dns_dispatch_createtcp() or _createudp(). we
can also infer DNS_DISPATCHATTR_IPV4 or _IPV6 from the addresses or
the socket that were passed in.
- We no longer use dup'd sockets in UDP dispatches, so the 'dup_socket'
parameter has been removed from dns_dispatch_createudp(), along with
the code implementing it. also removed isc_socket_dup() since it no
longer has any callers.
- The 'buffersize' parameter was ignored and has now been removed;
buffersize is now fixed at 4096.
- Maxbuffers and maxrequests don't need to be passed in on every call to
dns_dispatch_createtcp() and _createudp().
In all current uses, the value for mgr->maxbuffers will either be
raised once from its default of 20000 to 32768, or else left
alone. (passing in a value lower than 20000 does not lower it.) there
isn't enough difference between these values for there to be any need
to configure this.
The value for disp->maxrequests controls both the quota of concurrent
requests for a dispatch and also the size of the dispatch socket
memory pool. it's not clear that this quota is necessary at all. the
memory pool size currently starts at 32768, but is sometimes lowered
to 4096, which is definitely unnecessary.
This commit sets both values permanently to 32768.
- Previously TCP dispatches allocated their own separate QID table,
which didn't incorporate a port table. this commit removes
per-dispatch QID tables and shares the same table between all
dispatches. since dispatches are created for each TCP socket, this may
speed up the dispatch allocation process. there may be a slight
increase in lock contention since all dispatches are sharing a single
QID table, but since TCP sockets are used less often than UDP
sockets (which were already sharing a QID table), it should not be a
substantial change.
- The dispatch port table was being used to determine whether a port was
already in use; if so, then a UDP socket would be bound with
REUSEADDR. this commit removes the port table, and always binds UDP
sockets that way.
This commit adds the ability to enable or disable stateless TLS
session resumption tickets (see RFC5077). Having this ability is
twofold.
Firstly, these tickets are encrypted by the server, and the algorithm
might be weaker than the algorithm negotiated during the TLS session
establishment (it is in general the case for TLSv1.2, but the generic
principle applies to TLSv1.3 as well, despite it having better ciphers
for session tickets). Thus, they might compromise Perfect Forward
Secrecy.
Secondly, disabling it might be necessary if the same TLS key/cert
pair is supposed to be used by multiple servers to achieve, e.g., load
balancing because the session ticket by default gets generated in
runtime, while to achieve successful session resumption ability, in
this case, would have required using a shared key.
The proper alternative to having the ability to disable stateless TLS
session resumption tickets is to implement a proper session tickets
key rollover mechanism so that key rotation might be performed
often (e.g. once an hour) to not compromise forward secrecy while
retaining the associated performance benefits. That is much more work,
though. On the other hand, having the ability to disable session
tickets allows having a deployable configuration right now in the
cases when either forward secrecy is wanted or sharing the TLS
key/cert pair between multiple servers is needed (or both).
This commit adds support for enforcing the preference of server
ciphers over the client ones. This way, the server attains control
over the ciphers priority and, thus, can choose more strong cyphers
when a client prioritises less strong ciphers over the more strong
ones, which is beneficial when trying to achieve Perfect Forward
Secrecy.
This commit adds support for setting TLS cipher list string in the
format specified in the OpenSSL
documentation (https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man1/ciphers.html).
The syntax of the cipher list is verified so that specifying the wrong
string will prevent the configuration from being loaded.
This commit adds support for loading DH-parameters (Diffie-Hellman
parameters) via the new "dhparam-file" option within "tls" clause. In
particular, Diffie-Hellman parameters are needed to enable the range
of forward-secrecy enabled cyphers for TLSv1.2, which are getting
silently disabled otherwise.
This commit adds the ability to specify allowed TLS protocols versions
within the "tls" clause. If an unsupported TLS protocol version is
specified in a file, the configuration file will not pass
verification.
Also, this commit adds strict checks for "tls" clauses verification,
in particular:
- it ensures that loading configuration files containing duplicated
"tls" clauses is not allowed;
- it ensures that loading configuration files containing "tls" clauses
missing "cert-file" or "key-file" is not allowed;
- it ensures that loading configuration files containing "tls" clauses
named as "ephemeral" or "none" is not allowed.
The isc_mem_get() and isc_mem_put() functions are leaving the memory
allocation size tracking to the users of the API, while
isc_mem_allocate() and isc_mem_free() would track the sizes internally.
This allowed to have isc_mem_rellocate() to manipulate the memory
allocations by the later set, but not the former set of the functions.
This commit introduces isc_mem_reget(ctx, old_ptr, old_size, new_size)
function that operates on the memory allocations with external size
tracking completing the API.
The native PKCS#11 support has been removed in favour of better
maintained, more performance and easier to use OpenSSL PKCS#11 engine
from the OpenSC project.
This commit adds new function isc_nm_http_makeuri() which is supposed
to unify DoH URI construction throughout the codebase.
It handles IPv6 addresses, hostnames, and IPv6 addresses given as
hostnames properly, and replaces similar ad-hoc code in the codebase.
The previous versions of BIND 9 exported its internal libraries so that
they can be used by third-party applications more easily. Certain
library functions were altered from specific BIND-only behavior to more
generic behavior when used by other applications.
This commit removes the function isc_lib_register() that was used by
external applications to enable the functionality.
previously, receiving a keepalive option had no effect on how
long named would keep the connection open; there was a place to
configure the keepalive timeout but it was never used. this commit
corrects that.
this also fixes an error in isc__nm_{tcp,tls}dns_keepalive()
in which the sense of a REQUIRE test was reversed; previously this
error had not been noticed because the functions were not being
used.
- fix some duplicated and out-of-order prototypes declared in
netmgr-int.h
- rename isc_nm_tcpdns_keepalive to isc__nm_tcpdns_keepalive as
it's for internal use
Add a new function to resize the number of counters in a statistics
counter structure. This will be needed when we keep track of DNSSEC
sign statistics and new keys are introduced due to a rollover.
This commit gets rid of RW locks in a hot path of the DoH code. In the
original design, it was implied that we add new endpoints after the
HTTP listener was created. Such a design implies some locking. We do
not need such flexibility, though. Instead, we could build a set of
endpoints before the HTTP listener gets created. Such a design does
not need RW locks at all.
On the isc_mem water change the old water_t structure could be used
after free. Instead of introducing reference counting on the hot-path
we are going to introduce additional constraints on the
isc_mem_setwater. Once it's set for the first time, the additional
calls have to be made with the same water and water_arg arguments.
This commit makes number of concurrent HTTP/2 streams per connection
configurable as a mean to fight DDoS attacks. As soon as the limit is
reached, BIND terminates the whole session.
The commit adds a global configuration
option (http-streams-per-connection) which can be overridden in an
http <name> {...} statement like follows:
http local-http-server {
...
streams-per-connection 100;
...
};
For now the default value is 100, which should be enough (e.g. NGINX
uses 128, but it is a full-featured WEB-server). When using lower
numbers (e.g. ~70), it is possible to hit the limit with
e.g. flamethrower.
This commit adds support for http-listener-clients global options as
well as ability to override the default in an HTTP server description,
like:
http local-http-server {
...
listener-clients 100;
...
};
This way we have ability to specify per-listener active connections
quota globally and then override it when required. This is exactly
what AT&T requested us: they wanted a functionality to specify quota
globally and then override it for specific IPs. This change
functionality makes such a configuration possible.
It makes sense: for example, one could have different quotas for
internal and external clients. Or, for example, one could use BIND's
internal ability to serve encrypted DoH with some sane quota value for
internal clients, while having un-encrypted DoH listener without quota
to put BIND behind a load balancer doing TLS offloading for external
clients.
Moreover, the code no more shares the quota with TCP, which makes
little sense anyway (see tcp-clients option), because of the nature of
interaction of DoH clients: they tend to keep idle opened connections
for longer periods of time, preventing the TCP and TLS client from
being served. Thus, the need to have a separate, generally larger,
quota for them.
Also, the change makes any option within "http <name> { ... };"
statement optional, making it easier to override only required default
options.
By default, the DoH connections are limited to 300 per listener. I
hope that it is a good initial guesstimate.
This commit adds the code (and some tests) which allows verifying
validity of HTTP paths both in incoming HTTP requests and in BIND's
configuration file.
The isc_mem_get(), isc_mem_allocate() and isc_mem_reallocate() can
return NULL ptr in case where the allocation size is NULL. Remove the
nonnull attribute from the functions' declarations.
This stems from the following definition in the C11 standard:
> If the size of the space requested is zero, the behavior is
> implementation-defined: either a null pointer is returned, or the
> behavior is as if the size were some nonzero value, except that the
> returned pointer shall not be used to access an object.
In this case, we return NULL as it's easier to detect errors when
accessing pointer from zero-sized allocation which should obviously
never happen.
- isc_mempool_get() can no longer fail; when there are no more objects
in the pool, more are always allocated. checking for NULL return is
no longer necessary.
- the isc_mempool_setmaxalloc() and isc_mempool_getmaxalloc() functions
are no longer used and have been removed.
Current mempools are kind of hybrid structures - they serve two
purposes:
1. mempool with a lock is basically static sized allocator with
pre-allocated free items
2. mempool without a lock is a doubly-linked list of preallocated items
The first kind of usage could be easily replaced with jemalloc small
sized arena objects and thread-local caches.
The second usage not-so-much and we need to keep this (in
libdns:message.c) for performance reasons.
Previously, we only had capability to trace the mempool gets and puts,
but for debugging, it's sometimes also important to keep track how many
and where do the memory pools get created and destroyed. This commit
adds such tracking capability.
The ISC_MEM_DEBUGSIZE and ISC_MEM_DEBUGCTX did sanity checks on matching
size and memory context on the memory returned to the allocator. Those
will no longer needed when most of the allocator will be replaced with
jemalloc.
Previously, we only had capability to trace the memory gets and puts,
but for debugging, it's sometimes also important to keep track how many
and where do the memory contexts get created and destroyed. This commit
adds such tracking capability.
This commit makes BIND return HTTP status codes for malformed or too
small requests.
DNS request processing code would ignore such requests. Such an
approach works well for other DNS transport but does not make much
sense for HTTP, not allowing it to complete the request/response
sequence.
Suppose execution has reached the point where DNS message handling
code has been called. In that case, it means that the HTTP request has
been successfully processed, and, thus, we are expected to respond to
it either with a message containing some DNS payload or at least to
return an error status code. This commit ensures that BIND behaves
this way.
This commit adds two new autoconf options `--enable-doh` (enabled by
default) and `--with-libnghttp2` (mandatory when DoH is enabled).
When DoH support is disabled the library is not linked-in and support
for http(s) protocol is disabled in the netmgr, named and dig.
The isc/platform.h header was left empty which things either already
moved to config.h or to appropriate headers. This is just the final
cleanup commit.
The last remaining defines needed for platforms without NAME_MAX and
PATH_MAX (I'm looking at you, GNU Hurd) were moved to isc/dir.h where
it's prevalently used.
The ISC_STRERRORSIZE was defined in isc/platform.h header as the
value was different between Windows and POSIX platforms. Now that
Windows is gone, move the define to where it belongs.
Previously, each protocol (TCPDNS, TLSDNS) has specified own function to
disable pipelining on the connection. An oversight would lead to
assertion failure when opcode is not query over non-TCPDNS protocol
because the isc_nm_tcpdns_sequential() function would be called over
non-TCPDNS socket. This commit removes the per-protocol functions and
refactors the code to have and use common isc_nm_sequential() function
that would either disable the pipelining on the socket or would handle
the request in per specific manner. Currently it ignores the call for
HTTP sockets and causes assertion failure for protocols where it doesn't
make sense to call the function at all.
The requirements for BIND 9.17+ now requires C11 support from the
compiler, so we can safely drop most of the stdatomic.h shims from
lib/isc/unix/include/stdatomic.h.
This commit removes support for clang atomic builtins (clang >= 3.6.0
includes stdatomic.h header) and for Gcc __sync builtins.
The only compatibility shim that remains is support for __atomic
builtins for Gcc >= 4.7.0 since CentOS 7 still includes only Gcc 4.8.1
and the proper stdatomic.h header was only introduced in Gcc >= 4.9.
We cannot use DoH for zone transfers. According to RFC8484 a DoH
request contains exactly one DNS message (see Section 6: Definition of
the "application/dns-message" Media Type,
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8484#section-6). This makes
DoH unsuitable for zone transfers as often (and usually!) these need
more than one DNS message, especially for larger zones.
As zone transfers over DoH are not (yet) standardised, nor discussed
in RFC8484, the best thing we can do is to return "not implemented."
Technically DoH can be used to transfer small zones which fit in one
message, but that is not enough for the generic case.
Also, this commit makes the server-side DoH code ensure that no
multiple responses could be attempted to be sent over one HTTP/2
stream. In HTTP/2 one stream is mapped to one request/response
transaction. Now the write callback will be called with failure error
code in such a case.
The Windows support has been completely removed from the source tree
and BIND 9 now no longer supports native compilation on Windows.
We might consider reviewing mingw-w64 port if contributed by external
party, but no development efforts will be put into making BIND 9 compile
and run on Windows again.
The libuv has a support for running long running tasks in the dedicated
threadpools, so it doesn't affect networking IO.
This commit adds isc_nm_work_enqueue() wrapper that would wraps around
the libuv API and runs it on top of associated worker loop.
The only limitation is that the function must be called from inside
network manager thread, so the call to the function should be wrapped
inside a (bound) task.
On some platforms, the __attribute__ constructor and destructor won't
take priorities and the compilation failed. On such platform would be
macOS. For this reason, the constructor/destructor in the libisc was
reworked to not use priorities, but have a single constructor and
destructor that calls the appropriate routines in correct order.
This commit removes the extra priority because it's now not needed and
it also breaks a compilation on macOS with GCC 10.
The isc_nmiface_t type was holding just a single isc_sockaddr_t,
so we got rid of the datatype and use plain isc_sockaddr_t in place
where isc_nmiface_t was used before. This means less type-casting and
shorter path to access isc_sockaddr_t members.
At the same time, instead of keeping the reference to the isc_sockaddr_t
that was passed to us when we start listening, we will keep a local
copy. This prevents the data race on destruction of the ns_interface_t
objects where pending nmsockets could reference the sockaddr of already
destroyed ns_interface_t object.
Previously, as a way of reducing the contention between threads a
clientmgr object would be created for each interface/IP address.
We tasks being more strictly bound to netmgr workers, this is no longer
needed and we can just create clientmgr object per worker queue (ncpus).
Each clientmgr object than would have a single task and single memory
context.
Since a client object is bound to a netmgr handle, each client
will always be processed by the same netmgr worker, so we can
simplify the code by binding client->task to the same thread as
the client. Since ns__client_request() now runs in the same event
loop as client->task events, is no longer necessary to pause the
task manager before launching them.
Also removed some functions in isc_task that were not used.
Instead of using fixed quantum, this commit adds atomic counter for
number of items on each queue and uses the number of netievents
scheduled to run as the limit of maximum number of netievents for a
single process_queue() run.
This prevents the endless loops when the netievent would schedule more
netievents onto the same loop, but we don't have to pick "magic" number
for the quantum.
This commit adds a new configuration option to set the receive and send
buffer sizes on the TCP and UDP netmgr sockets. The default is `0`
which doesn't set any value and just uses the value set by the operating
system.
There's no magic value here - set it too small and the performance will
drop, set it too large, the buffers can fill-up with queries that have
already timeouted on the client side and nobody is interested for the
answer and this would just make the server clog up even more by making
it produce useless work.
The `netstat -su` can be used on POSIX systems to monitor the receive
and send buffer errors.
The netmgr listening, stoplistening, pausing and resuming functions
now use barriers for synchronization, which makes the code much simpler.
isc/barrier.h defines isc_barrier macros as a front-end for uv_barrier
on platforms where that works, and pthread_barrier where it doesn't
(including TSAN builds).
