The lame-ttl cache is implemented in ADB as per-server locked
linked-list "indexed" with <qname,qtype>. This list has to be walked
every time there's a new query or new record added into the lame cache.
Determined attacker can use this to degrade performance of the resolver.
Resolver testing has shown that disabling the lame cache has little
impact on the resolver performance and it's a minimal viable defense
against this kind of attack.
When using 'nsec3param' in 'dnssec-policy' and no specific parameters
are provided, default to zero additional iterations and no salt, as
recommended by draft-ietf-dnsop-nsec3-guidance.
We have to mention that every option within a "tls" clause has
defaults out of our control as some platforms have means for defining
encryption policies globally for any application on the system.
In order to comply with these policies, we have not to modify TLS
contexts settings, unless we have to do so according to the options
specified within "tls" clauses.
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.
Discourage the single source port on general level and document that the
source port cannot be same as the listening port. This applies to
query-source, transfer-source, notify-source, parental-source, and their
respective IPv6 counterparts.
Document that the interval on new RRSIG records is randomally
chosen between the limits specified by sig-validity-interval.
document the operatations when this occurs.
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.
When backporting the Don't Fragment UDP socket option, it was noticed
that the edns-udp-size probing uses 1432 as one of the values to be
probed and the documentation would be recommending 1400 as the safe
value. As the safe value can be from the 1400-1500 interval, the
documentation has been changed to match the probed value, so we do not
skip it.
Expand the description of mirror zones in the ARM by adding a brief
discussion of how the validation process works for AXFR and IXFR. Move
the paragraph mentioning the "file" option higher up. Apply minor
stylistic and whitespace-related tweaks to the relevant section of the
ARM.
Apply minor stylistical and whitespace-related tweaks to the
descriptions of the "tcp-receive-buffer", "udp-receive-buffer",
"tcp-send-buffer", and "udp-send-buffer" options in the ARM.
The ARM contains typos in the names of the following two options:
- "tcp-receive-buffer"
- "udp-receive-buffer"
Fix the ARM so that it contains proper option names.
Improve the description of the "max-cache-size" option in the ARM by
focusing on its meaning for multiple views and default values.
Add mention of a hash table preallocation.
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.
Update the ARM to mention the new built-in "insecure" policy. Update
the DNSSEC guide recipe "Revert to unsigned" to add the additional
step of reconfiguring the zone to "insecure" (instead of immediately
set it to "none").
While working on the serve-stale backports, I noticed the following
oddities:
1. In the serve-stale system test, in one case we keep track of the
time how long it took for dig to complete. In commit
aaed7f9d8c2465790d769221dfe8378c7147f5eb, the code removed the
exception to check for result == ISC_R_SUCCESS on stale found
answers, and adjusted the test accordingly. This failed to update
the time tracking accordingly. Move the t1/t2 time track variables
back around the two dig commands to ensure the lookups resolved
faster than the resolver-query-timeout.
2. We can remove the setting of NS_QUERYATTR_STALEOK and
DNS_RDATASETATTR_STALE_ADDED on the "else if (stale_timeout)"
code path, because they are added later when we know we have
actually found a stale answer on a stale timeout lookup.
3. We should clear the NS_QUERYATTR_STALEOK flag from the client
query attributes instead of DNS_RDATASETATTR_STALE_ADDED (that
flag is set on the rdataset attributes).
4. In 'bin/named/config.c' we should set the configuration options
in alpabetical order.
5. In the ARM, in the backports we have added "(stale)" between
"cached" and "RRset" to make more clear a stale RRset may be
returned in this scenario.
Using "stale-answer-client-timeout" turns out to have unforeseen
negative consequences, and thus it is better to disable the feature
by default for the time being.
Commit 9fb6d11abbdb10ded128f0ee5c004f24b4030ede (which converted BIND 9
documentation from DocBook to Sphinx) inadvertently removed a paragraph
from the description of the "max-ixfr-ratio" option. Add the missing
paragraph back.
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.
unencrypted DoH connections may be used in some operational
environments where encryption is handled by a reverse proxy,
but it's going to be relatively rare, so we shouldn't make it
easy to do by mistake. this commit changes the syntax for
listen-on and listen-on-v6 so that if "http" is specified, "tls"
must also be specified; for unencrypted listeners, "tls none"
can be used.
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.
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.
