In commit aea251f3bc, `isc_buffer_reserve()` was changed to
take a simple `isc_buffer_t *` instead of `isc_buffer_t **`.
A number of functions calling it have now been similarly
modified.
the effective configuration tree is now detached if allow-new-zones
or catalog-zones aren't enabled in any views. this reduces memory
consumption while still allowing "rndc showconf -effective" to work.
The built-in configuration is actually used in two cases: first, when
the server is loaded (or reloaded), and second when
'rndc showconf -builtin' is called.
Considering the parsing of the builtin configuration is quick and does
not occur during exclusive mode, but the configuration tree takes
considerable memory space, the built-in configuration is no longer kept
in memory once it has been used; instead it is re-parsed on demand.
once the user configuration has been merged into the effective
configuration, it no longer needs to be accessed as a configuration
tree, but we still want to be able to show it with 'rndc showconf -user'.
because the recursive strucure of cfg_obj objects is fairly large, the
canonical text form is a fraction of the size of the configuration
tree, so we now save it in that form instead.
add a new rndc command to dump server configuration info:
- "rndc showconf -user" dumps the contents of named.conf
- "rndc showconf -builtin" dumps named_g_defaltconfig
- "rndc showconf -effective" dumps the effective configuration,
i.e., the merger of the builtin and the user configurations.
instead of using an opaque ns_cfgctx pointer to store the configuration
data to be used by addzone and modzone, there are now fields in the
dns_view object to store the view configuration and LMDB database
environment. the global configuration is now stored in the named_server
object, along with the ACL context.
The effective configuration now contains the actual named configuration
as a unified user/global single tree instance. We now provide this to
apply_configuration() instead of the user configuration.
Two programs need to be able to provide the effective configuration:
named (through a future rndc command) and named-checkconf (though a
future command line switch). In order to calculate the effective
configuration from named-checkconf, the default configuration
needs to be accessible.
The default configuration has now been moved from bin/named/config.c
into a common include directory for binaries: bin/include/defaultconfig.h.
Instead of (1) allocating a parser, (2) parsing a file/buffer then (3)
freeing the parser, the parser is now internally created/destroyed from
within the `cfg_parse_*` functions. This simplifies a lot the use cases,
especially around the error cases where the parser needs to be freed in
a cleanup goto.
The only trick was the parser callback mechanism, which would previously
have been set up between steps 1 and 2. Since it's never been used for
any purpose other than the "directory" option, the chdir call has now
been moved inside the parser and the generic callback mechanism has been
removed, replacing CFG_CLAUSEFLAG_CALLBACK with CFG_CLAUSEFLAG_CHDIR.
Remove all global cfg_parser objects as well as shared parsers between
views to dynamically add zones. Instead, parser are transirently created
whenever needed.
Remove the global named defaults parser. Instead, a parser is created
during the execution time of named_config_parsedefaults(). This
simplifies the API (no parser to pass around) and the life-cycle of the
default configuration tree (it doesn't depends on a parser instance).
With the code handling the "tkey-gssapi-credential" statement removed,
the named_tkeyctx_fromconfig() function can no longer fail. Update its
return type to void and revise its only call site accordingly. Clean up
the function's documentation. Declare the 's' helper variable only in
the scope it is used in to improve readability.
ACL configuration context variables are inconsistently named as `actx`,
`ac`, or `aclconfctx`, which caused confusion during code reviews. This
commit renames all `cfg_aclconfctx_t` variables to `aclctx`, which is
short, consistent, and unambiguous.
`named_g_actconfctx` is a global variable holding the ACL configuration
context alive (in particular, to dynamically load zones). However, this
object is build once per configuration (early) and is used only inside
server.c `apply_configuration` flow. (Two exceptions: the shutdown flow,
still in server.c and plugin check flow, which doesn't need it, so it's
NULL in such case).
Instead of leaving this global publicly exposed, it is now part of the
`named_server_t` object. This allows us to clearly see that, when
reconfigureing the server, the new instance of the ACL context is known
only by the newly built object and not currently used by "production"
object; and will help to move move logic before the exclusive mode is
taken.
The other advantage is that the ACL configuration context can now be
built before the exclusive lock as well.
The zone plugin loading code now also looks into the zone template
configuration property of a zone. If it exists, it checks whether there
is a plugin sub-tree defined in the template and, if that exists, loads
the plugin definition from the template.
The list of keystores is owned by the single server object
(named_g_server), but dns_zone_t has a pointer into it in order to
preserve encapsulation (lib/dns won't link to bin/named for good
reasons).
However, getting the keystores from the zone uses the zone lock whereas
this is not needed (as the pointer value doesn't depends on the zone,
and is initialized only with the same named_g_server->keystores value);
also storing an extra pointer per zone is not needed; also, there was a
logic based on the zone->secure property which was not needed (as there
is only one keystore).
The keystores pointer is now accessible and lock-free at view level,
it also simplifies a bit the various zone configuration APIs (server.c,
zoneconf.c).
Instead of having individual memory contexts scattered across different
files and called different names, add a single memory context called
isc_g_mctx that replaces named_g_mctx and various other global memory
contexts in various utilities and tests.
There is only a single network manager running on top of the loop
manager (except for tests). Refactor the network manager to be a
singleton (a single instance) and change the unit tests, so that the
shorter read timeouts apply only to a specific handle, not the whole
extra 'connect_nm' network manager instance.
All the applications built on top of the loop manager were required to
create just a single instance of the loop manager. Refactor the loop
manager to not expose this instance to the callers and keep the loop
manager object internal to the isc_loop compilation unit.
This significantly simplifies a number of data structures and calls to
the isc_loop API.
The configuration file was parsed when named was in exclusive
(i.e. single-threaded) mode and unable to answer queries. Because
the parsing is a self-contained operation, it is now done before
named enters exclusive mode.
This reduces the amount of time named can't answer queries when
reloading the configuration when the configuration file is large.
Note that exclusive mode is still used for applying the
configuration changes to the server.
Also, simplify the configuration logic by parsing the built-in
configuration only once at server start time.
A "template" statement can contain the same configuration clauses
as a "zone" statement. A "zone" statement can now reference a
template, and all the clauses in that template will be used as
default values for the zone. For example:
template primary {
type primary;
file "$name.db";
initial-file "primary.db";
};
zone example.com {
template primary;
file "different-name.db"; // overrides the template
};
libsystemd, despite being useful, adds a huge surface area for just
using the sd_notify API. libsystemd's surface has been exploited in the
past [1].
Implement the systemd notification protocol by hand since it is just
sending newline-delimited datagrams to a UNIX socket. The code shouldn't
need more attention in the future since the notification protocol is
covered under systemd's stability promise [2].
We don't need to support VSOCK-backed service notifications since they
are only intended for virtual machine inits.
[1]: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
[2]: https://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/
This new rndc option allows to reset some statistics counters during
runtime. At this moment only the high-water type counters are supported
as such an ability to reset them after the initial peaks during the
server's "warm-up" phase can be useful for some operators.
The new command is `rndc memprof`. The memory profiling status is also
reported inside `rndc status`. The status also shows whether named can
toggle memory profiling or not and if the server is built with jemalloc.
the isc_mem allocation functions can no longer fail; as a result,
ISC_R_NOMEMORY is now rarely used: only when an external library
such as libjson-c or libfstrm could return NULL. (even in
these cases, arguably we should assert rather than returning
ISC_R_NOMEMORY.)
code and comments that mentioned ISC_R_NOMEMORY have been
cleaned up, and the following functions have been changed to
type void, since (in most cases) the only value they could
return was ISC_R_SUCCESS:
- dns_dns64_create()
- dns_dyndb_create()
- dns_ipkeylist_resize()
- dns_kasp_create()
- dns_kasp_key_create()
- dns_keystore_create()
- dns_order_create()
- dns_order_add()
- dns_peerlist_new()
- dns_tkeyctx_create()
- dns_view_create()
- dns_zone_setorigin()
- dns_zone_setfile()
- dns_zone_setstream()
- dns_zone_getdbtype()
- dns_zone_setjournal()
- dns_zone_setkeydirectory()
- isc_lex_openstream()
- isc_portset_create()
- isc_symtab_create()
(the exception is dns_view_create(), which could have returned
other error codes in the event of a crypto library failure when
calling isc_file_sanitize(), but that should be a RUNTIME_CHECK
anyway.)
Since BIND 9 headers are not longer public, there's no reason to keep
the ISC_LANG_BEGINDECL and ISC_LANG_ENDDECL macros to support including
them from C++ projects.
Having zone statements that are also top blocks is confusing, and if
we want to add more in the future (which I suspect will be for
generalized notifications, multi-signer), we need to duplicate a lot
of code.
Remove top blocks 'parental-agents' and 'primaries' and just have one
top block 'remote-servers' that you can refer to with zone statements.
This commit adds support for timestamps in iso8601 format with timezone
when logging. This is exposed through the iso8601-tzinfo printtime
suboption.
It also makes the new logging format the default for -g output,
hopefully removing the need for custom timestamp parsing in scripts.
DNSRPS was the API for a commercial implementation of Response-Policy
Zones that was supposedly better. However, it was never open-sourced
and has only ever been available from a single vendor. This goes against
the principle that the open-source edition of BIND 9 should contain only
features that are generally available and universal.
This commit removes the DNSRPS implementation from BIND 9. It may be
reinstated in the subscription edition if there's enough interest from
customers, but it would have to be rewritten as a plugin (hook) instead
of hard-wiring it again in so many places.
On systems where root access is needed to configure privileged
ports, we don't want to fully relinquish root privileges until
after the control channel (which typically runs on port 953) has
been established.
named_os_changeuser() now takes a boolean argument 'permanent'.
This allows us to switch the effective userid temporarily with
named_os_changeuser(false) and restore it with named_os_restoreuser(),
before permanently dropping privileges with named_os_changeuser(true).
Add the code and documentation required to provide KSR import using
rndc. This is just the command, and the feature is at this point in
time still not implemented.
Remove the complicated mechanism that could be (in theory) used by
external libraries to register new categories and modules with
statically defined lists in <isc/log.h>. This is similar to what we
have done for <isc/result.h> result codes. All the libraries are now
internal to BIND 9, so we don't need to provide a mechanism to register
extra categories and modules.
Add isc_logconfig_get() function to get the current logconfig and use
the getter to replace most of the little dancing around setting up
logging in the tools. Thus:
isc_log_create(mctx, &lctx, &logconfig);
isc_log_setcontext(lctx);
dns_log_setcontext(lctx);
...
...use lcfg...
...
isc_log_destroy();
is now only:
logconfig = isc_logconfig_get(lctx);
...use lcfg...
For thread-safety, isc_logconfig_get() should be surrounded by RCU read
lock, but since we never use isc_logconfig_get() in threaded context,
the only place where it is actually used (but not really needed) is
named_log_init().
The OpenSSL 1.x Engines support has been deprecated in the OpenSSL 3.x
and is going to be removed. Remove the OpenSSL Engine support in favor
of OpenSSL Providers.
Some external log file rotation programs use signals to tell programs
to close log files. SIGHUP can be used to do this but it also does
a full reconfiguration. Configure named to accept SIGUSR1 as a
signal to close log files.
Refactor dns_dnssec_findmatchingkeys and dns_dnssec_keylistfromrdataset
to take into account the key store directories in case the zone is using
dnssec-policy (kasp). Add 'kasp' and 'keystores' parameters.
This requires the keystorelist to be stored inside the zone structure.
The calls to these functions in the DNSSEC tools can use NULL as the
kasp value, as dnssec-signzone does not (yet) support dnssec-policy,
and key collision is checked inside the directory where it is created.
