The new rules compare the target name in PTR and SRV records against
the machine name embedded in the kerberos principal. This can be
used to further restrict what PTR and SRV records can be added or
deleted via dynamic updates if desired.
Unify the header guard style and replace the inconsistent include guards
with #pragma once.
The #pragma once is widely and very well supported in all compilers that
BIND 9 supports, and #pragma once was already in use in several new or
refactored headers.
Using simpler method will also allow us to automate header guard checks
as this is simpler to programatically check.
For reference, here are the reasons for the change taken from
Wikipedia[1]:
> In the C and C++ programming languages, #pragma once is a non-standard
> but widely supported preprocessor directive designed to cause the
> current source file to be included only once in a single compilation.
>
> Thus, #pragma once serves the same purpose as include guards, but with
> several advantages, including: less code, avoidance of name clashes,
> and sometimes improvement in compilation speed. On the other hand,
> #pragma once is not necessarily available in all compilers and its
> implementation is tricky and might not always be reliable.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragma_once
Replace most "master/slave" terminology in tests with the preferred
"primary/secondary", with the following exceptions:
- When testing the old syntax
- When master is used in master file and master file format terms
- When master is used in hostmaster or postmaster terms
- When master used in legacy domain names (for example in dig.batch)
- When there is no replacement (for example default-masters)
Remove the dynamic registration of result codes. Convert isc_result_t
from unsigned + #defines into 32-bit enum type in grand unified
<isc/result.h> header. Keep the existing values of the result codes
even at the expense of the description and identifier tables being
unnecessary large.
Additionally, add couple of:
switch (result) {
[...]
default:
break;
}
statements where compiler now complains about missing enum values in the
switch statement.
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.
"cache-file" was already documented as intended for testing
purposes only and not to be used, so we can remove it without
waiting. this commit marks the option as "ancient", and
removes all the documentation and implementing code, including
dns_cache_setfilename() and dns_cache_dump().
it also removes the documentation for the '-x cachefile`
parameter to named, which had already been removed, but the man
page was not updated at the time.
This commit fixes a regression introduced at
ea80bcc41c. Some options, which are
common to both DoH and DoT were mistakenly disabled for non-DoH
builds. That is a mistake, because DoH does not imply DoT and vice
versa. Not fixing this would make DoT functionality not accessible
without DoH.
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.
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 Makefile.tests was modifying global AM_CFLAGS and LDADD and could
accidentally pull /usr/include to be listed before the internal
libraries, which is known to cause problems if the headers from the
previous version of BIND 9 has been installed on the build machine.
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.
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.
Add a new built-in policy "insecure", to be used to gracefully unsign
a zone. Previously you could just remove the 'dnssec-policy'
configuration from your zone statement, or remove it.
The built-in policy "none" (or not configured) now actually means
no DNSSEC maintenance for the corresponding zone. So if you
immediately reconfigure your zone from whatever policy to "none",
your zone will temporarily be seen as bogus by validating resolvers.
This means we can remove the functions 'dns_zone_use_kasp()' and
'dns_zone_secure_to_insecure()' again. We also no longer have to
check for the existence of key state files to figure out if a zone
is transitioning to insecure.
When reducing the number of NSEC3 iterations to 150, commit
aa26cde2ae added tests for dnssec-policy
to check that a too high iteration count is a configuration failure.
The test is not sufficient because 151 was always too high for
ECDSAP256SHA256. The test should check for a different algorithm.
There was an existing test case that checks for NSEC3 iterations.
Update the test with the new maximum values.
Update the code in 'kaspconf.c' to allow at most 150 iterations.
Add a new option 'purge-keys' to 'dnssec-policy' that will purge key
files for deleted keys. The option determines how long key files
should be retained prior to removing the corresponding files from
disk.
If set to 0, the option is disabled and 'named' will not remove key
files from disk.
updated the parser to allow the "port", "tls" and "http"
paramters to "listen-on" and "listen-on-v6" to be specified in any
order. previously the parser would throw an error if any other order
was used than port, tls, http.
removed the isc_cfg_http_t and isc_cfg_tls_t structures
and the functions that loaded and accessed them; this can
be done using normal config parser functions.
This commit adds stub parser support and tests for:
- an "http" global option for HTTP/2 endpoint configuration.
- command line options to set http or https port numbers by
specifying -p http=PORT or -p https=PORT. (NOTE: this change
only affects syntax; specifying HTTP and HTTPS ports on the
command line currently has no effect.)
- named.conf options "http-port" and "https-port"
- HTTPSPORT environment variable for use when running tests.
Add support for a "tls" key/value pair for zone primaries, referencing
either a "tls" configuration statement or "ephemeral". If set to use
TLS, zones will send SOA and AXFR/IXFR queries over a TLS channel.
This commit allows to specify "disabled" or "off" in
stale-answer-client-timeout statement. The logic to support this
behavior will be added in the subsequent commits.
This commit also ensures an upper bound to stale-answer-client-timeout
which equals to one second less than 'resolver-query-timeout'.
The general logic behind the addition of this new feature works as
folows:
When a client query arrives, the basic path (query.c / ns_query_recurse)
was to create a fetch, waiting for completion in fetch_callback.
With the introduction of stale-answer-client-timeout, a new event of
type DNS_EVENT_TRYSTALE may invoke fetch_callback, whenever stale
answers are enabled and the fetch took longer than
stale-answer-client-timeout to complete.
When an event of type DNS_EVENT_TRYSTALE triggers fetch_callback, we
must ensure that the folowing happens:
1. Setup a new query context with the sole purpose of looking up for
stale RRset only data, for that matters a new flag was added
'DNS_DBFIND_STALEONLY' used in database lookups.
. If a stale RRset is found, mark the original client query as
answered (with a new query attribute named NS_QUERYATTR_ANSWERED),
so when the fetch completion event is received later, we avoid
answering the client twice.
. If a stale RRset is not found, cleanup and wait for the normal
fetch completion event.
2. In ns_query_done, we must change this part:
/*
* If we're recursing then just return; the query will
* resume when recursion ends.
*/
if (RECURSING(qctx->client)) {
return (qctx->result);
}
To this:
if (RECURSING(qctx->client) && !QUERY_STALEONLY(qctx->client)) {
return (qctx->result);
}
Otherwise we would not proceed to answer the client if it happened
that a stale answer was found when looking up for stale only data.
When an event of type DNS_EVENT_FETCHDONE triggers fetch_callback, we
proceed as before, resuming query, updating stats, etc, but a few
exceptions had to be added, most important of which are two:
1. Before answering the client (ns_client_send), check if the query
wasn't already answered before.
2. Before detaching a client, e.g.
isc_nmhandle_detach(&client->reqhandle), ensure that this is the
fetch completion event, and not the one triggered due to
stale-answer-client-timeout, so a correct call would be:
if (!QUERY_STALEONLY(client)) {
isc_nmhandle_detach(&client->reqhandle);
}
Other than these notes, comments were added in code in attempt to make
these updates easier to follow.
The BIND 9 libraries are considered to be internal only and hence the
API and ABI changes a lot. Keeping track of the API/ABI changes takes
time and it's a complicated matter as the safest way to make everything
stable would be to bump any library in the dependency chain as in theory
if libns links with libdns, and a binary links with both, and we bump
the libdns SOVERSION, but not the libns SOVERSION, the old libns might
be loaded by binary pulling old libdns together with new libdns loaded
by the binary. The situation gets even more complicated with loading
the plugins that have been compiled with few versions old BIND 9
libraries and then dynamically loaded into the named.
We are picking the safest option possible and usable for internal
libraries - instead of using -version-info that has only a weak link to
BIND 9 version number, we are using -release libtool option that will
embed the corresponding BIND 9 version number into the library name.
That means that instead of libisc.so.1701 (as an example) the library
will now be named libisc-9.17.10.so.
The 'filter-aaaa', 'filter-aaaa-on-v4', and 'filter-aaaa-on-v6' options
are replaced by the filter-aaaa plugin. This plugin was introduced in
9.13.5 and so it is safe to remove the named.conf options.
These options were ancient or made obsolete a long time ago, it is
safe to remove them.
Also stop printing ancient options, they should be treated the same as
unknown options.
Removed options: lwres, geoip-use-ecs, sit-secret, use-ixfr,
acache-cleaning-interval, acache-enable, additional-from-auth,
additional-from-cache, allow-v6-synthesis, dnssec-enable,
max-acache-size, nosit-udp-size, queryport-pool-ports,
queryport-pool-updateinterval, request-sit, use-queryport-pool, and
support-ixfr.
The 'new default' option was introduced in 2002 to signal that a
default option had changed its default value, in this specific case
the value for 'auth-nxdomain'. However, this default has been unchanged
for 18 years now, and logging that the default has changed does not
have significant value nowadays.
This is also a good example that the clause flag 'new default' is
broken: it is easy to get out of date.
It is also easy to forget, because we have changed the default value
for 'max-stale-ttl' and haven't been flagging it with 'new default'
Also, if the operator cares for a specific value it should set it
explicitly. Using the default is telling the software: use whatever
you think is best, and this may change over time. Default value
changes should be mentioned in the release note, but do not require
further special treatment.
