After a couple releases, it appears that the minimum version can be
increased without much trouble.
Because meson only requires python 3.7 or greater, most supported
distributions can run a newer meson without having to deal with
additional dependencies or a new python version.
Since the "tkey-gssapi-credential" statement has been previously
deprecated, mark it as ancient and remove all code related to it:
- The code processing the "tkey-gssapi-credential" statement in the
configuration is the only user of the dst_gssapi_acquirecred() and
dst_gssapi_releasecred() functions, so remove them along with their
static helper functions and a backup definition of the
GSS_KRB5_MECHANISM macro.
- When calling gss_accept_sec_context(), pass GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL
instead of the credential acquired by gss_acquire_cred().
(Previously, NULL was passed when "tkey-gssapi-credential" was not
specified. Kerberos headers define GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL as
(gss_cred_id_t) 0, so the logic was effectively the same, but using
the GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL macro is more appropriate.) This renders
the 'cred' parameter for dst_gssapi_acceptctx() redundant, so remove
it from the prototype of the latter. (Contrary to what the
documentation for dst_gssapi_acceptctx() claims,
dst_gssapi_releasecred() does not need to subsequently be called to
free the GSS-API context; a dst_gssapi_deletectx() call in
gssapi_destroy() takes care of that when the dynamically generated
TSIG key is destroyed.)
- Remove the 'gsscred' member from struct dns_tkeyctx, along with its
related dns_gss_cred_id_t typedef.
Update the relevant sections of the ARM and code comments accordingly.
This makes the "tkey-gssapi-keytab" statement the only way to set up
GSS-TSIG in named.
Remove redundant code from bin/named/tkeyconf.c while at it.
To prevent spoofed unsigned DNAME responses being accepted retry
response with unsigned DNAMEs over TCP if the response is not TSIG
signed or there isn't a good DNS CLIENT COOKIE.
Enabling LTO yields substantial performance gains on both authoritative
and resolver benchmarks.
But since LTO defers many optimization passes to link time, enabling LTO
across the board would cause an increase in compilation time, as passes
that would be run only once would need to be run for each executable.
As a compromise, this commit adds a named-lto build option, that
compiles the individual object files with the -ffat-lto-object option
and then enables LTO only for the named executable. Object files are
reused between lib*.so and the named executable.
Sphinx's smartquotes feature was rewriting -- to en-dash, "" to proper
English quotes etc. This was messing up syntax at unpredictable places.
Disable this feature instead of attempting to escape all the places in
the manual.
The new order hopefully reflects likelihood of someone reading from start
to the end:
DNSSEC Guide
Manual Pages
General DNS Reference Information
Release Notes
Changelog
A Brief History of the DNS and BIND
Mimic the Unbound behaviour where the cyclic offset is taken from query
ID, and remove recording of the current state. As the incoming query ID
should have random distribution, the cyclic ordering should also have
uniform distribution of the starting record.
The rrset-order random doesn't offer uniform distribution of all
permutations and it isn't superior to cyclic order in any way. Make the
random ordering an alias to the cyclic ordering.
Extend the `$name`, `$view` and `$type` tokens (expanding into the zone
name, zone's view name and type); the new following tokens are now also
accepted:
- $name or %s is replaced with the zone name in lower case;
- $type or %t is replaced with the zone type -- i.e., primary,
secondary, etc);
- $view or %v is replaced with the view name;
- $char1 or %1 is replaced with the first character of the zone name;
- $char2 or %2 is replaced with the second character of the zone name
(or a dot if there is no second character);
- $char3 or %3 is replaced with the third character of the zone name (or
a dot if there is no third character);
- $label1 or %z is replaced with the toplevel domain of the zone (or a
dot if it is the root zone);
- $label2 or %y is replaced with the next label under the toplevel
domain (or a dot if there is no next label);
- $label3 or %x is replaced with the next-next label under the toplevel
domain (or a dot if there is no next-next label).
The "tkey-domain" statement has effectively been a no-op since commit
bd4576b3ce, which removed the only bit of
code using it: the logic implementing TKEY Mode 2 (Diffie-Hellman).
A subsequent cleanup commit, 885c132f4a,
also missed the opportunity to remove the "tkey-domain" statement
altogether.
Mark the "tkey-domain" statement as obsolete and remove all code and
documentation related to it.
The "tkey-gssapi-keytab" statement enables GSS-TSIG to be set up in a
simpler and more reliable way than using the "tkey-gssapi-credential"
statement and setting environment variables (e.g. KRB5_KTNAME).
Mark the "tkey-gssapi-credential" statement as deprecated to eventually
only have one method for setting up GSS-TSIG in named. Do not mention
"tkey-gssapi-credential" in the section of the ARM on dynamic updates.
By default, when named is started it may start answering to
queries before the response policy zones are completely loaded
and processed. This new feature gives an option to the users to
tell named that incoming requests should result in SERVFAIL anwser
until all the response policy zones are procesed and ready.
Add a new option 'manual-mode' to 'dnssec-policy'. The intended
use is that if it is enabled, it will not automatically move to the
next state transition (RUMOURED, UNRETENTIVE), only after manual
confirmation. The intended state transition should be logged.
Commit a6cce753e2 erroneously used
Markdown syntax in doc/arm/dlz.inc.rst. Replace it with proper
reStructuredText so that the relevant section of the ARM is rendered
correctly.
The 'plain' optimization level doesn't add any flags and gives the
control to the packager. Similarly, avoid any hardening flags in this
level.
Necessary flags such as `-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks` and
`-fno-strict-aliasing` are still included.
When the interface-interval parser was changed from uint32 parser to
duration parser, the default value stayed at plain 60 which now means 60
seconds instead of 60 minutes. Fix the default value and the
documentation to match the reality.
The meson build switched to generating the file grammars and using meson
to build the manpages/ARM. This is because meson doesn't work well when
writing files outside the build directory.
However, this has been suboptimal when someone only wants to build the
documentation (like RTD). Sphinx can now be used outside meson like it
was with autoconf.
Grammars are now updated by the developer with CI checking if one is
needed or not, like clang-format.
move the "makejournal" tool from bin/tests/system to bin/tools
and rename it to "named-makejournal". add a man page. update
tests to use the new file location.
Meson is a modern build system that has seen a rise in adoption and some
version of it is available in almost every platform supported.
Compared to automake, meson has the following advantages:
* Meson provides a significant boost to the build and configuration time
by better exploiting parallelism.
* Meson is subjectively considered to be better in readability.
These merits alone justify experimenting with meson as a way of
improving development time and ergonomics. However, there are some
compromises to ensure the transition goes relatively smooth:
* The system tests currently rely on various files within the source
directory. Changing this requirement is a non-trivial task that can't
be currently justified. Currently the last compiled build directory
writes into the source tree which is in turn used by pytest.
* The minimum version supported has been fixed at 0.61. Increasing this
value will require choosing a baseline of distributions that can
package with meson. On the contrary, there will likely be an attempt
to decrease this value to ensure almost universal support for building
BIND 9 with meson.
