Add a comment explaining the purpose of setting the "today" variable in
Sphinx invocations to prevent confusion caused by the absence of that
variable from reStructuredText sources.
Drop the -A command-line option from the sphinx-build invocation for
EPUB output as "today" is already set in the ALLSPHINXOPTS variable.
Some Sphinx variables used in the ARM are only set in Makefile.docs.
This works fine when building the ARM using "make", but does not work
with Read the Docs, which only looks at conf.py files.
Since Read the Docs does not run ./configure, renaming conf.py to
conf.py.in and using Autoconf output variables is not a feasible
solution.
Instead, extend doc/arm/conf.py with some Python code which processes
configure.ac using regular expressions and sets the relevant Sphinx
variables accordingly. As this solution also works fine when building
the ARM using "make", drop the relevant -D options from the list of
sphinx-build options used for building the ARM in Makefile.docs.
Note that the man_SPHINXOPTS counterparts of the removed -D switches are
left intact because doc/man/conf.py is a separate Sphinx project which
is only processed using "make" and duplicating the Python code added to
doc/arm/conf.py by this commit would be inelegant.
TLS pre-master secrets will be dumped to disk using the logging
framework provided by libisc. Add a new logging category for this type
of debugging data in order to enable exporting it to a dedicated
channel. Derive the name of the new category from the name of the
relevant environment variable, SSLKEYLOGFILE.
A number of DNS implementation produce NSEC records with bad type
maps that don't contain types that exist at the name leading to
NODATA responses being synthesize instead of the records in the
zone. NSEC records with these bad type maps often have the NSEC
NSEC field set to '\000.QNAME'. We look for the first label of
this pattern.
e.g.
example.com NSEC \000.example.com SOA NS NSEC RRSIG
example.com RRRSIG NSEC ...
example.com SOA ...
example.com RRRSIG SOA ...
example.com NS ...
example.com RRRSIG NS ...
example.com A ...
example.com RRRSIG A ...
A is missing from the type map.
This introduces a temporary option 'reject-000-label' to control
this behaviour.
'server <prefix> { broken-nsec yes; };' can now be used to stop
NSEC records from negative responses from servers in the given
prefix being cached and hence available to synth-from-dnssec.
This commit updates both the reference manual and release notes with
the information that 'allow-transfer' has been extended with
additional "port" and "transport" options.
This commit disables the unused 'tls' clause options. For these some
backing code exists, but their values are not really used anywhere,
nor there are sufficient syntax tests for them.
These options are only disabled temporarily, until TLS certificate
verification gets implemented.
The documentation was inconsistent with the code. The new description
for cookie-algorithm now reflects the current behavior.
The following two commits are the relevant code changes to this
section of docs: afa81ee4 a912f313
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.
The ReferenceRole class is only available in Sphinx >= 2.0.0, which
makes building BIND 9 documentation impossible with older Sphinx
versions:
Running Sphinx v1.7.6
Configuration error:
There is a programable error in your configuration file:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sphinx/config.py", line 161, in __init__
execfile_(filename, config)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sphinx/util/pycompat.py", line 150, in execfile_
exec_(code, _globals)
File "conf.py", line 21, in <module>
from sphinx.util.docutils import ReferenceRole
ImportError: cannot import name 'ReferenceRole'
Work around the problem by defining a stub version of the ReferenceRole
class if the latter cannot be imported. This allows documentation
(without GitLab hyperlinks in release notes) to be built with older
Sphinx versions.
The documentation and feature-test were using '--with-idn' but the
configure script doesn't recognize this option. The correct option to
enable IDN support is '--with-libidn2'.
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.
Address the following warnings reported by PyLint 2.10.2:
************* Module conf
doc/arm/conf.py:90:10: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/arm/conf.py:92:12: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/arm/conf.py:93:9: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/arm/conf.py:143:31: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/man/conf.py:33:10: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/man/conf.py:38:12: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/man/conf.py:39:9: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
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.
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.
