This commit makes NM code to report HTTP as a stream protocol. This
makes it possible to handle large responses properly. Like:
dig +https @127.0.0.1 A cmts1-dhcp.longlines.com
When answering a query requires wildcard expansion, the AUTHORITY
section of the response needs to include NSEC(3) record(s) proving that
the QNAME does not exist.
When a response to a query is an insecure delegation, the AUTHORITY
section needs to include an NSEC(3) proof that no DS record exists at
the parent side of the zone cut.
These two conditions combined trip up the NSEC part of the logic
contained in query_addds(), which expects the NS RRset to be owned by
the first name found in the AUTHORITY section of a delegation response.
This may not always be true, for example if wildcard expansion causes an
NSEC record proving QNAME nonexistence to be added to the AUTHORITY
section before the delegation is added to the response. In such a case,
named incorrectly omits the NSEC record proving nonexistence of QNAME
from the AUTHORITY section.
The same block of code is affected by another flaw: if the same NSEC
record proves nonexistence of both the QNAME and the DS record at the
parent side of the zone cut, this NSEC record will be added to the
AUTHORITY section twice.
Fix by looking for the NS RRset in the entire AUTHORITY section and
adding the NSEC record to the delegation using query_addrrset() (which
handles duplicate RRset detection).
Add a set of system tests which check the contents of the AUTHORITY
section for signed, insecure delegation responses constructed from CNAME
records and wildcards, both for zones using NSEC and NSEC3.
Instead of checking the value of the variable modified two lines earlier
(the number of SOA records present at the apex of the old version of the
zone), one of the RUNTIME_CHECK() assertions in zone_postload() checks
the number of SOA records present at the apex of the new version of the
zone, which is already checked before. Fix the assertion by making it
check the correct variable.
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.
When named restarts, it will examine signed zones and checks if the
current denial of existence strategy matches the dnssec-policy. If not,
it will schedule to create a new NSEC(3) chain.
However, on startup the zone database may not be read yet, fooling
BIND that the denial of existence chain needs to be created. This
results in a replacement of the previous NSEC(3) chain.
Change the code such that if the NSEC3PARAM lookup failed (the result
did not return in ISC_R_SUCCESS or ISC_R_NOTFOUND), we will try
again later. The nsec3param structure has additional variables to
signal if the lookup is postponed. We also need to save the signal
if an explicit resalt was requested.
In addition to the two added boolean variables, we add a variable to
store the NSEC3PARAM rdata. This may have a yet to be determined salt
value. We can't create the private data yet because there may be a
mismatch in salt length and the NULL salt value.
Add a test case where 'named' is restarted and ensure that an already
signed zone does not change its NSEC3 parameters.
The test case first tests the current zone and saves the used salt
value. Then after restart it checks if the salt (and other parameters)
are the same as before the restart.
This test case changes 'set_nsec3param'. This will now reset the salt
value, and when checking for NSEC3PARAM we will store the salt and
use it when testing the NXDOMAIN response. This does mean that for
every test case we now have to call 'set_nsec3param' explicitly (and
can not omit it because it is the same as the previous zone).
Finally, slightly changed some echo output to make debugging friendlier.
When we rewrote the zone dumping to use the separate threadpool, the
dumping would acquire the read lock for the whole time the zone dumping
process is dumping the zone.
When combined with incoming IXFR that tries to acquire the write lock on
the same rwlock, we would end up blocking all the other readers.
In this commit, we pause the dbiterator every time we get next record
and before start dumping it to the disk.
Make sure an incoming IXFR containing an SOA record which is not placed
at the apex of the transferred zone does not result in a broken version
of the zone being served by named and/or a subsequent crash.
While cleaning up the usage of HAVE_UV_<func> macros, we forgot to
cleanup the HAVE_UV_UDP_CONNECT in the actual code and
HAVE_UV_TRANSLATE_SYS_ERROR and this was causing Windows build to fail
on uv_udp_send() because the socket was already connected and we were
falsely assuming that it was not.
The platforms with autoconf support were not affected, because we were
still checking for the functions from the configure.
This commit adds the ability to consolidate HTTP/2 write requests if
there is already one in flight. If it is the case, the code will
consolidate multiple subsequent write request into a larger one
allowing to utilise the network in a more efficient way by creating
larger TCP packets as well as by reducing TLS records overhead (by
creating large TLS records instead of multiple small ones).
This optimisation is especially efficient for clients, creating many
concurrent HTTP/2 streams over a transport connection at once. This
way, the code might create a small amount of multi-kilobyte requests
instead of many 50-120 byte ones.
In fact, it turned out to work so well that I had to add a work-around
to the code to ensure compatibility with the flamethrower, which, at
the time of writing, does not support TLS records larger than two
kilobytes. Now the code tries to flush the write buffer after 1.5
kilobyte, which is still pretty adequate for our use case.
Essentially, this commit implements a recommendation given by nghttp2
library:
https://nghttp2.org/documentation/nghttp2_session_mem_send.html
Add a call to posix_fadvise() to indicate to the kernel, that `named`
won't be needing the dumped zone files any time soon with:
* POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED - The specified data will not be accessed in the
near future.
Notes:
POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED attempts to free cached pages associated with the
specified region. This is useful, for example, while streaming large
files. A program may periodically request the kernel to free cached
data that has already been used, so that more useful cached pages are
not discarded instead.
Previously, dumping the zones to the files were quantized, so it doesn't
slow down network IO processing. With the introduction of network
manager asynchronous threadpools, we can move the IO intensive work to
use that API and we don't have to quantize the work anymore as it the
file IO won't block anything except other zone dumping processes.
