Previously:
* applications were using isc_app as the base unit for running the
application and signal handling.
* networking was handled in the netmgr layer, which would start a
number of threads, each with a uv_loop event loop.
* task/event handling was done in the isc_task unit, which used
netmgr event loops to run the isc_event calls.
In this refactoring:
* the network manager now uses isc_loop instead of maintaining its
own worker threads and event loops.
* the taskmgr that manages isc_task instances now also uses isc_loopmgr,
and every isc_task runs on a specific isc_loop bound to the specific
thread.
* applications have been updated as necessary to use the new API.
* new ISC_LOOP_TEST macros have been added to enable unit tests to
run isc_loop event loops. unit tests have been updated to use this
where needed.
* isc_timer was rewritten using the uv_timer, and isc_timermgr_t was
completely removed; isc_timer objects are now directly created on the
isc_loop event loops.
* the isc_timer API has been simplified. the "inactive" timer type has
been removed; timers are now stopped by calling isc_timer_stop()
instead of resetting to inactive.
* isc_manager now creates a loop manager rather than a timer manager.
* modules and applications using isc_timer have been updated to use the
new API.
this command runs dns_adb_dumpquota() to display all servers
in the ADB that are being actively fetchlimited by the
fetches-per-server controls (i.e, servers with a nonzero average
timeout ratio or with the quota having been reduced from the
default value).
the "fetchlimit" system test has been updated to use the
new command to check quota values instead of "rndc dumpdb".
The isc_task_onshutdown() was used to post event that should be run when
the task is being shutdown. This could happen explicitly in the
isc_test_shutdown() call or implicitly when we detach the last reference
to the task and there are no more events posted on the task.
This whole task onshutdown mechanism just makes things more complicated,
and it's easier to post the "shutdown" events when we are shutting down
explicitly and the existing code already always knows when it should
shutdown the task that's being used to execute the onshutdown events.
Replace the isc_task_onshutdown() calls with explicit calls to execute
the shutdown tasks.
It might be useful to display built-in configuration with all its
values. It should make it easier to test what default values has changed
in a new release.
Related: #1326
C11 has builtin support for _Noreturn function specifier with
convenience noreturn macro defined in <stdnoreturn.h> header.
Replace ISC_NORETURN macro by C11 noreturn with fallback to
__attribute__((noreturn)) if the C11 support is not complete.
This commit converts the license handling to adhere to the REUSE
specification. It specifically:
1. Adds used licnses to LICENSES/ directory
2. Add "isc" template for adding the copyright boilerplate
3. Changes all source files to include copyright and SPDX license
header, this includes all the C sources, documentation, zone files,
configuration files. There are notes in the doc/dev/copyrights file
on how to add correct headers to the new files.
4. Handle the rest that can't be modified via .reuse/dep5 file. The
binary (or otherwise unmodifiable) files could have license places
next to them in <foo>.license file, but this would lead to cluttered
repository and most of the files handled in the .reuse/dep5 file are
system test files.
This commit enables client-side TLS contexts re-use for zone transfers
over TLS. That, in turn, makes it possible to use the internal session
cache associated with the contexts, allowing the TLS connections to be
established faster and requiring fewer resources by not going through
the full TLS handshake procedure.
Previously that would recreate the context on every connection, making
TLS session resumption impossible.
Also, this change lays down a foundation for Strict TLS (when the
client validates a server certificate), as the TLS context cache can
be extended to store additional data required for validation (like
intermediates CA chain).
Using the TLS context cache for server-side contexts could reduce the
number of contexts to initialise in the configurations when e.g. the
same 'tls' entry is used in multiple 'listen-on' statements for the
same DNS transport, binding to multiple IP addresses.
In such a case, only one TLS context will be created, instead of a
context per IP address, which could reduce the initialisation time, as
initialising even a non-ephemeral TLS context introduces some delay,
which can be *visually* noticeable by log activity.
Also, this change lays down a foundation for Mutual TLS (when the
server validates a client certificate, additionally to a client
validating the server), as the TLS context cache can be extended to
store additional data required for validation (like intermediates CA
chain).
Additionally to the above, the change ensures that the contexts are
not being changed after initialisation, as such a practice is frowned
upon. Previously we would set the supported ALPN tags within
isc_nm_listenhttp() and isc_nm_listentlsdns(). We do not do that for
client-side contexts, so that appears to be an overlook. Now we set
the supported ALPN tags right after server-side contexts creation,
similarly how we do for client-side ones.
A customary method of exporting TLS pre-master secrets used by a piece
of software (for debugging purposes, e.g. to examine decrypted traffic
in a packet sniffer) is to set the SSLKEYLOGFILE environment variable to
the path to the file in which this data should be logged.
In order to enable writing any data to a file using the logging
framework provided by libisc, a logging channel needs to be defined and
the relevant logging category needs to be associated with it. Since the
SSLKEYLOGFILE variable is only expected to contain a path, some defaults
for the logging channel need to be assumed. Add a new function,
named_log_setdefaultsslkeylogfile(), for setting up those implicit
defaults, which are equivalent to the following logging configuration:
channel default_sslkeylogfile {
file "${SSLKEYLOGFILE}" versions 10 size 100m suffix timestamp;
};
category sslkeylog {
default_sslkeylogfile;
};
This ensures TLS pre-master secrets do not use up more than about 1 GB
of disk space, which should be enough to hold debugging data for the
most recent 1 million TLS connections.
As these values are arguably not universally appropriate for all
deployment environments, a way for overriding them needs to exist.
Suppress creation of the default logging channel for TLS pre-master
secrets when the SSLKEYLOGFILE variable is set to the string "config".
This enables providing custom logging configuration for the relevant
category via the "logging" stanza. (Note that it would have been
simpler to only skip setting up the default logging channel for TLS
pre-master secrets if the SSLKEYLOGFILE environment variable is not set
at all. However, libisc only logs pre-master secrets if that variable
is set. Detecting a "magic" string enables the SSLKEYLOGFILE
environment variable to serve as a single control for both enabling TLS
pre-master secret collection and potentially also indicating where and
how they should be exported.)
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
check for type "master" / "slave" at the same time as checking
for "primary" / "secondary" as we step through the maps.
Checking "primary" then "master" or "master" then "primary" does
not work as the synomym is not checked for to stop the search.
Similarly with "secondary" and "slave".
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.
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.
Previously, netmgr, taskmgr, timermgr and socketmgr all had their own
isc_<*>mgr_create() and isc_<*>mgr_destroy() functions. The new
isc_managers_create() and isc_managers_destroy() fold all four into a
single function and makes sure the objects are created and destroy in
correct order.
Especially now, when taskmgr runs on top of netmgr, the correct order is
important and when the code was duplicated at many places it's easy to
make mistake.
The former isc_<*>mgr_create() and isc_<*>mgr_destroy() functions were
made private and a single call to isc_managers_create() and
isc_managers_destroy() is required at the program startup / shutdown.
This commit completes the support for DNS-over-HTTP(S) built on top of
nghttp2 and plugs it into the BIND. Support for both GET and POST
requests is present, as required by RFC8484.
Both encrypted (via TLS) and unencrypted HTTP/2 connections are
supported. The latter are mostly there for debugging/troubleshooting
purposes and for the means of encryption offloading to third-party
software (as might be desirable in some environments to simplify TLS
certificates management).
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.
When doing 'rndc reconfig', named may complain about a zone not being
reusable because it has a raw version of the zone, and the new
configuration has not set 'inline-signing'. However, 'inline-signing'
may be implicitly true if a 'dnssec-policy' is used for the zone, and
the zone is not dynamic.
Improve the check in 'named_zone_reusable'. Create a new function for
checking 'inline-signing' configuration that matches existing code in
'bin/named/server.c'.
This commit adds couple of additional safeguards against running
sends/reads on inactive sockets. The changes was modeled after the
changes we made to netmgr/tcpdns.c
Parse the configuration of tls objects into SSL_CTX* objects. Listen on
DoT if 'tls' option is setup in listen-on directive. Use DoT/DoH ports
for DoT/DoH.
The dotat() function has been changed to send the TAT
query asynchronously, so there's no lock order loop
because we initialize the data first and then we schedule
the TAT send to happen asynchronously.
This breaks following lock-order loops:
zone->lock (dns_zone_setviewcommit) while holding view->lock
(dns_view_setviewcommit)
keytable->lock (dns_keytable_find) while holding zone->lock
(zone_asyncload)
view->lock (dns_view_findzonecut) while holding keytable->lock
(dns_keytable_forall)
An implicit default of "max-cache-size 90%;" may cause memory use issues
on hosts which run numerous named instances in parallel (e.g. GitLab CI
runners) due to the cache RBT hash table now being pre-allocated [1] at
startup. Add a new command line option, "-T maxcachesize=...", to allow
the default value of "max-cache-size" to be overridden at runtime. When
this new option is in effect, it overrides any other "max-cache-size"
setting in the configuration, either implicit or explicit. This
approach was chosen because it is arguably the simplest one to
implement.
The following alternative approaches to solving this problem were
considered and ultimately rejected (after it was decided they were not
worth the extra code complexity):
- adding the same command line option, but making explicit
configuration statements have priority over it,
- adding a build-time option that allows the implicit default of
"max-cache-size 90%;" to be overridden.
[1] see commit e24bc324b4
- using an isc_task to execute all rndc functions makes it relatively
simple for them to acquire task exclusive mode when needed
- control_recvmessage() has been separated into two functions,
control_recvmessage() and control_respond(). the respond function
can be called immediately from control_recvmessage() when processing
a nonce, or it can be called after returning from the task event
that ran the rndc command function.
as "type primary" is preferred over "type master" now, it makes
sense to make "primaries" available as a synonym too.
added a correctness check to ensure "primaries" and "masters"
cannot both be used in the same zone.
Add the code and documentation required to provide DNSSEC signing
status through rndc. This does not yet show any useful information,
just provide the command that will output some dummy string.
The rewrite of BIND 9 build system is a large work and cannot be reasonable
split into separate merge requests. Addition of the automake has a positive
effect on the readability and maintainability of the build system as it is more
declarative, it allows conditional and we are able to drop all of the custom
make code that BIND 9 developed over the years to overcome the deficiencies of
autoconf + custom Makefile.in files.
This squashed commit contains following changes:
- conversion (or rather fresh rewrite) of all Makefile.in files to Makefile.am
by using automake
- the libtool is now properly integrated with automake (the way we used it
was rather hackish as the only official way how to use libtool is via
automake
- the dynamic module loading was rewritten from a custom patchwork to libtool's
libltdl (which includes the patchwork to support module loading on different
systems internally)
- conversion of the unit test executor from kyua to automake parallel driver
- conversion of the system test executor from custom make/shell to automake
parallel driver
- The GSSAPI has been refactored, the custom SPNEGO on the basis that
all major KRB5/GSSAPI (mit-krb5, heimdal and Windows) implementations
support SPNEGO mechanism.
- The various defunct tests from bin/tests have been removed:
bin/tests/optional and bin/tests/pkcs11
- The text files generated from the MD files have been removed, the
MarkDown has been designed to be readable by both humans and computers
- The xsl header is now generated by a simple sed command instead of
perl helper
- The <irs/platform.h> header has been removed
- cleanups of configure.ac script to make it more simpler, addition of multiple
macros (there's still work to be done though)
- the tarball can now be prepared with `make dist`
- the system tests are partially able to run in oot build
Here's a list of unfinished work that needs to be completed in subsequent merge
requests:
- `make distcheck` doesn't yet work (because of system tests oot run is not yet
finished)
- documentation is not yet built, there's a different merge request with docbook
to sphinx-build rst conversion that needs to be rebased and adapted on top of
the automake
- msvc build is non functional yet and we need to decide whether we will just
cross-compile bind9 using mingw-w64 or fix the msvc build
- contributed dlz modules are not included neither in the autoconf nor automake
The isc_mem API now crashes on memory allocation failure, and this is
the next commit in series to cleanup the code that could fail before,
but cannot fail now, e.g. isc_result_t return type has been changed to
void for the isc_log API functions that could only return ISC_R_SUCCESS.
Previously, the dns_geoip API used isc_thread_key API for TLS, which is
fairly complicated and requires initialization of memory contexts, etc.
This part of code was refactored to use a ISC_THREAD_LOCAL pointer which
greatly simplifies the whole code related to storing TLS variables, and
creating the local memory context was moved to named and stored in the
named_g_geoip global context.
- ns__client_request() is now called by netmgr with an isc_nmhandle_t
parameter. The handle can then be permanently associated with an
ns_client object.
- The task manager is paused so that isc_task events that may be
triggred during client processing will not fire until after the netmgr is
finished with it. Before any asynchronous event, the client MUST
call isc_nmhandle_ref(client->handle), to prevent the client from
being reset and reused while waiting for an event to process. When
the asynchronous event is complete, isc_nmhandle_unref(client->handle)
must be called to ensure the handle can be reused later.
- reference counting of client objects is now handled in the nmhandle
object. when the handle references drop to zero, the client's "reset"
callback is used to free temporary resources and reiniialize it,
whereupon the handle (and associated client) is placed in the
"inactive handles" queue. when the sysstem is shutdown and the
handles are cleaned up, the client's "put" callback is called to free
all remaining resources.
- because client allocation is no longer handled in the same way,
the '-T clienttest' option has now been removed and is no longer
used by any system tests.
- the unit tests require wrapping the isc_nmhandle_unref() function;
when LD_WRAP is supported, that is used. otherwise we link a
libwrap.so interposer library and use that.
The named_g_defaultdnstap was never used as the dnstap requires
explicit configuration of the output file.
Related scan-build report:
./server.c:3476:14: warning: Value stored to 'dpath' during its initialization is never read
const char *dpath = named_g_defaultdnstap;
^~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 warning generated.
- revise mapping of search terms to database types to match the
GeoIP2 schemas.
- open GeoIP2 databases when starting up; close when shutting down.
- clarify the logged error message when an unknown database type
is configured.
- add new geoip ACL subtypes to support searching for continent in
country databases.
- map geoip ACL subtypes to specific MMDB database queries.
- perform MMDB lookups based on subtype, saving state between
queries so repeated lookups for the same address aren't necessary.