Marek Vavrusa authored 9 years ago and Grigorii Demidov committed 9 years ago

there are broken resolution chains where a zone cut is advertised,
but it doesn't exist and the final NS answers from its parent's
zone cut, which is an attempt to escape bailiwick

example:

resolving A ab.cd.ef
NS ef responds:
 - ab.cd.ef NS X ; adverises ab.cd.ef zone cut
X responds:
 - A ab.cd.ef A 1.2.3.4
 - cd.ef NS X ; escapes previously advertised cut

on the other hand, it is important to fail early for referrals as
it signifies a lame answer

there are broken resolution chains where a zone cut is advertised,
but it doesn't exist and the final NS answers from its parent's
zone cut, which is an attempt to escape bailiwick

example:

resolving A ab.cd.ef
NS ef responds:
 - ab.cd.ef NS X ; adverises ab.cd.ef zone cut
X responds:
 - A ab.cd.ef A 1.2.3.4
 - cd.ef NS X ; escapes previously advertised cut

on the other hand, it is important to fail early for referrals as
it signifies a lame answer

this is not going to be backwards compatible change, but it will be the first tagged libknot release sufficient for resolver

amalgamated build concatenates all files into a single .c file to
allow compiler see all symbols and produce possibly smaller code.
for binary distributions this is what you want, as it's faster but
may consume more memory during compilation.
it however cannot do incremental builds.

refs #33

RRs may be touched after resolution completion, this copies RR from
temporary per-recv buffer to answer, which is persistent for the whole
duration of request

the library is able to resolve query in stub mode (no referral chasing,
zone cut lookup) if asked to
validator turns off for stub queries, validating stub is NYI

as the libknot packet interface disallows out-of-order packet
writes, authority and additional records must be written after
the answer is complete; records in the rr arrays will be written to final answer during finalization

[1] shows an attack using spoofed CNAME targets to replace legitimate
entries in resolver cache by speeding up once-per-TTL attack opportunity

as a defense, the resolver almost always requeries CNAME targets and
doesn't store them in cache. the only exception is when the CNAME target
is within current authority, and the answer is DNSSEC-secured

thanks to Toshinori Maeno (@beyondDNS) for pointing this out [2]

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-weaver-dnsext-comprehensive-
resolver-00.html
[2]: https://moin.qmail.jp/DNS/KnotResolver/CNAMEpatch

validator can now yield, but it doesn't plan the sub-requests directly,
that is still a job of the driver

this is useful when you need to issue several subrequests before
continuing with the current query, resuming is not supported yet, so it
will requery after the subrequests complete

current processed query is always in `request->current_query`

this is a workaround for missing DEFER operation, as the
validator module can only detect trust chain breakage
(caused by answering from different authority) after the
iterator writes answer. this causes duplicated answer on
uncached queries

this doesn’t fix record duplication in answer when not answered from cache

this is a problem when both CNAME and the target are answered from the same NS (but different authority), but only the CNAME authority does DNSSEC. it’s probably legal, but it’s pretty stupid to do so

if the client doesn't support DNSSEC, scrub these from the answer
and do not set the AD bit

with DNSSEC, such query needs to be revalidated as the TA/key is missing
for the new zone cut, which would lead to duplicated answers

in the future there may be an api to defer query processing, but for now
it can't be done

in this case the NS is an authority for both parent and child, so the NS
set stays the same and only the cut name changes

also answers for which minimisation failed or truncated
are fixed, for such answers iterator sets state to ‘consume’
to indicate the answer wasn’t processed

previously, debug messages were optional with -DWITH_DEBUG
now the debug messages are built in (unless compiled with -DNDEBUG), but
disabled by default

verbose output can be enabled by '-v' or '--verbose' CLI option
or interactively by 'verbose(true|false)' (or in config)

zonecut should be able to hold these for testing reasons (like private
root or zone cut), but it should filter out data from the internet
a new flag: QUERY_ALLOW_LOCAL allows for being more permissive, and
letting name server query local or private address ranges

this is a small step for me, but a huge step for resolver

this provides a useful callback for per-request operations that can’t wait until the query is completed (e.g. blocking or logging started queries)

no need to scramble queries satisfied from cache

this fixes an issue when nameserver responds with AA=0 and authority
of a CNAME target (which is in current bailiwick)