Release notes — Knot Resolver 5.3.2.1620608016.7d6d94ae documentation

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Release notes¶

Version numbering¶
Version number format is major.minor.patch.
Knot Resolver does not use semantic versioning even though the version number looks similar.
Leftmost number which was changed signalizes what to expect when upgrading:

Major version

Manual upgrade steps might be necessary, please follow instructions in Upgrading section.
Major releases may contain significant changes including changes to configuration format.
We might release a new major also when internal implementation details change significantly.

Minor version

Configuration stays compatible with the previous version, except for undocumented or very obscure options.
Upgrade should be seamless for users who use modules shipped as part of Knot Resolver distribution.
Incompatible changes in internal APIs are allowed in minor versions. Users who develop or use custom modules
(i.e. modules not distributed together with Knot Resolver) need to double check their modules for incompatibilities.
Upgrading section should contain hints for module authors.

Patch version

Everything should be compatible with the previous version.
API for modules should be stable on best effort basis, i.e. API is very unlikely to break in patch releases.
Custom modules might need to be recompiled, i.e. ABI compatibility is not guaranteed.

This definition is not applicable to versions older than 5.2.0.

Knot Resolver 5.3.2 (2021-05-05)¶

Security¶

validator: fix 5.3.1 regression on over-limit NSEC3 edge case (!1169)
Assertion might be triggered by query/answer, potentially DoS.

Improvements¶

cache: improve handling write errors from LMDB (!1159)
doh2: improve handling of stream errors (!1164)

Bugfixes¶

dnstap module: fix repeated configuration (!1168)
validator: fix SERVFAIL for some rare dynamic proofs (!1166)
fix SIGBUS on uncommon ARM machines (unaligned access; !1167, #426)
cache: better resilience on abnormal termination/restarts (!1172)
doh2: fix memleak on stream write failures (!1161)

Knot Resolver 5.3.1 (2021-03-31)¶

Improvements¶

policy.STUB: try to avoid TCP (compared to 5.3.0; !1155)
validator: downgrade NSEC3 records with too many iterations (>150; !1160)
additional improvements to nameserver selection algorithm (!1154, !1150)

Bugfixes¶

dnstap module: don’t break request resolution on dnstap errors (!1147)
cache garbage collector: fix crashes introduced in 5.3.0 (!1153)
policy.TLS_FORWARD: better avoid dead addresses (#671, !1156)

Knot Resolver 5.3.0 (2021-02-25)¶

Improvements¶

more consistency in using parent-side records for NS addresses (!1097)
better algorithm for choosing nameservers (!1030, !1126, !1140, !1141, !1143)
daf module: add daf.clear() (!1114)
dnstap module: more features and don’t log internal requests (!1103)
dnstap module: include in upstream packages and Docker image (!1110, !1118)
randomize record order by default, i.e. reorder_RR(true) (!1124)
prometheus module: transform graphite tags into prometheus labels (!1109)
avoid excessive logging of UDP replies with sendmmsg (!1138)

Bugfixes¶

view: fail config if bad subnet is specified (!1112)
doh2: fix memory leak (!1117)
policy.ANSWER: minor fixes, mainly around NODATA answers (!1129)
http, watchdog modules: fix stability problems (!1136)

Incompatible changes¶

dnstap module: log_responses option gets nested under client;
see new docs for config example (!1103)
libknot >= 2.9 is required

Knot Resolver 5.2.1 (2020-12-09)¶

Improvements¶

doh2: send Cache-Control header with TTL (#617, !1095)

Bugfixes¶

fix map() command on 32-bit platforms; regressed in 5.2.0 (!1093)
doh2: restrict endpoints to doh and dns-query (#636, !1104)
renumber: map to correct subnet when using multiple rules (!1107)

Knot Resolver 5.2.0 (2020-11-11)¶

Improvements¶

doh2: add native C module for DNS-over-HTTPS (#600, !997)
xdp: add server-side XDP support for higher UDP performance (#533, !1083)
lower default EDNS buffer size to 1232 bytes (#538, #300, !920);
see https://dnsflagday.net/2020/
net: split the EDNS buffer size into upstream and downstream (!1026)
lua-http doh: answer to /dns-query endpoint as well as /doh (!1069)
improve resiliency against UDP fragmentation attacks (disable PMTUD) (!1061)
ta_update: warn if there are differences between statically configured
keys and upstream (#251, !1051)
human readable output in interactive mode was improved
doc: generate info page (!1079)
packaging: improve sysusers and tmpfiles support (!1080)

Bugfixes¶

avoid an assert() error in stash_rrset() (!1072)
fix emergency cache locking bug introduced in 5.1.3 (!1078)
migrate map() command to control sockets; fix systemd integration (!1000)
fix crash when sending back errors over control socket (!1000)
fix SERVFAIL while processing forwarded CNAME to a sibling zone (#614, !1070)

Incompatible changes¶

see upgrading guide:
https://knot-resolver.readthedocs.io/en/stable/upgrading.html#to-5-2
minor changes in module API
control socket API commands have to be terminated by “n”
graphite: default prefix now contains instance identifier (!1000)
build: meson >= 0.49 is required (!1082)

Knot Resolver 5.1.3 (2020-09-08)¶

Improvements¶

capabilities are no longer constrained when running as root (!1012)
cache: add percentage usage to cache.stats() (#580, !1025)
cache: add number of cache entries to cache.stats() (#510, !1028)
aarch64 support again, as some systems still didn’t work (!1033)
support building against Knot DNS 3.0 (!1053)

Bugfixes¶

tls: fix compilation to support net.tls_sticket_secret() (!1021)
validator: ignore bogus RRSIGs present in insecure domains (!1022, #587)
build if libsystemd version isn’t detected as integer (#592, !1029)
validator: more robust reaction on missing RRSIGs (#390, !1020)
ta_update module: fix broken RFC5011 rollover (!1035)
garbage collector: avoid keeping multiple copies of cache (!1042)

Knot Resolver 5.1.2 (2020-07-01)¶

Bugfixes¶

hints module: NODATA answers also for non-address queries (!1005)
tls: send alert to peer if handshake fails (!1007)
cache: fix interaction between LMDB locks and preallocation (!1013)
cache garbage collector: fix flushing of messages to logs (!1009)
cache garbage collector: fix insufficient GC on 32-bit systems (!1009)
graphite module: do not block resolver on TCP failures (!1014)
policy.rpz various fixes (!1016): $ORIGIN issues,
precision of warnings, allow answering with multi-RR sets

Knot Resolver 5.1.1 (2020-05-19)¶

Security¶

fix CVE-2020-12667: mitigation for NXNSAttack DNS protocol vulnerability

Bugfixes¶

control sockets: recognize newline as command boundary

Knot Resolver 5.1.0 (2020-04-29)¶

Improvements¶

cache garbage collector: reduce filesystem operations when idle (!946)
policy.DEBUG_ALWAYS and policy.DEBUG_IF for limited verbose logging (!957)
daemon: improve TCP query latency under heavy TCP load (!968)
add policy.ANSWER action (!964, #192)
policy.rpz support fake A/AAAA (!964, #194)

Bugfixes¶

cache: missing filesystem support for pre-allocation is no longer fatal (#549)
lua: policy.rpz() no longer watches the file when watch is set to false (!954)
fix a strict aliasing problem that might’ve lead to “miscompilation” (!962)
fix handling of DNAMEs, especially signed ones (#234, !965)
lua resolve(): correctly include EDNS0 in the virtual packet (!963)
Custom modules might have been confused by that.
do not leak bogus data into SERVFAIL answers (#396)
improve random Lua number generator initialization (!979)
cache: fix CNAME caching when validation is disabled (#472, !974)
cache: fix CNAME caching in policy.STUB mode (!974)
prefill: fix crash caused by race condition with resolver startup (!983)
webmgmt: use javascript scheme detection for websockets’ protocol (#546)
daf module: fix del(), deny(), drop(), tc(), pass() functions (#553, !966)
policy and daf modules: expose initial query when evaluating postrules (#556)
cache: fix some cases of caching answers over 4 KiB (!976)
docs: support sphinx 3.0.0+ (!978)

Incompatible changes¶

minor changes in module API; see upgrading guide:
https://knot-resolver.readthedocs.io/en/stable/upgrading.html

Knot Resolver 5.0.1 (2020-02-05)¶

Bugfixes¶

systemd: use correct cache location for garbage collector (#543)

Improvements¶

cache: add cache.fssize() lua function to configure entire free disk space on
dedicated cache partition (#524, !932)

Knot Resolver 5.0.0 (2020-01-27)¶

Incompatible changes¶

see upgrading guide: https://knot-resolver.readthedocs.io/en/stable/upgrading.html
systemd sockets are no longer supported (#485)
net.listen() throws an error if it fails to bind; use freebind option if needed
control socket location has changed (!922)
-f/–forks is deprecated (#529, !919)

Improvements¶

logging: control-socket commands don’t log unless –verbose (#528)
use SO_REUSEPORT_LB if available (FreeBSD 12.0+)
lua: remove dependency on lua-socket and lua-sec, used lua-http and cqueues (#512, #521, !894)
lua: remove dependency on lua-filesystem (#520, !912)
net.listen(): allow binding to non-local address with freebind option (!898)
cache: pre-allocate the file to avoid SIGBUS later (not macOS; !917, #525)
lua: be stricter around nonsense returned from modules (!901)
user documentation was reorganized and extended (!900, !867)
multiple config files can be used with –config/-c option (!909)
lua: stop trying to tweak lua’s GC (!201)
systemd: add SYSTEMD_INSTANCE env variable to identify different instances (!906)

Bugfixes¶

correctly use EDNS(0) padding in failed answers (!921)
policy and daf modules: fix postrules and reroute rules (!901)
renumber module: don’t accidentally zero-out request’s .state (!901)

Knot Resolver 4.3.0 (2019-12-04)¶

Security - CVE-2019-19331¶

fix speed of processing large RRsets (DoS, #518)
improve CNAME chain length accounting (DoS, !899)

Bugfixes¶

http module: use SO_REUSEPORT (!879)
systemd: kresd@.service now properly starts after network interfaces
have been configured with IP addresses after reboot (!884)
sendmmsg: improve reliability (!704)
cache: fix crash on insertion via lua for NS and CNAME (!889)
rpm package: move root.keys to /var/lib/knot-resolver (#513, !888)

Improvements¶

increase file-descriptor count limit to maximum allowed value (hard limit; !876)
watchdog module: support testing a DNS query (and switch C -> lua; !878, !881)
performance: use sendmmsg syscall towards clients by default (!877)
performance: avoid excessive getsockname() syscalls (!854)
performance: lua-related improvements (!874)
daemon now attempts to drop all capabilities (!896)
reduce CNAME chain length limit - now <= 12 (!899)

Knot Resolver 4.2.2 (2019-10-07)¶

Bugfixes¶

lua bindings: fix a 4.2.1 regression on 32-bit systems (#514)
which also fixes libknot 2.9 support on all systems

Knot Resolver 4.2.1 (2019-09-26)¶

Bugfixes¶

rebinding module: fix handling some requests, respect ALLOW_LOCAL flag
fix incorrect SERVFAIL on cached bogus answer for +cd request (!860)
(regression since 4.1.0 release, in less common cases)
prefill module: allow a different module-loading style (#506)
validation: trim TTLs by RRSIG’s expiration and original TTL (#319, #504)
NS choice algorithm: fix a regression since 4.0.0 (#497, !868)
policy: special domains home.arpa. and local. get NXDOMAIN (!855)

Improvements¶

add compatibility with (future) libknot 2.9

Knot Resolver 4.2.0 (2019-08-05)¶

Improvements¶

queries without RD bit set are REFUSED by default (!838)
support forwarding to multiple targets (!825)

Bugfixes¶

tls_client: fix issue with TLS session resumption (#489)
rebinding module: fix another false-positive assertion case (!851)

Module API changes¶

kr_request::add_selected is now really put into answer,
instead of the “duplicate” ::additional field (#490)

Knot Resolver 4.1.0 (2019-07-10)¶

Security¶

fix CVE-2019-10190: do not pass bogus negative answer to client (!827)
fix CVE-2019-10191: do not cache negative answer with forged QNAME+QTYPE (!839)

Improvements¶

new cache garbage collector is available and enabled by default (#257)
This improves cache efficiency on big installations.
DNS-over-HTTPS: unknown HTTP parameters are ignored to improve compatibility
with non-standard clients (!832)
DNS-over-HTTPS: answers include access-control-allow-origin: * (!823)
which allows JavaScript to use DoH endpoint.
http module: support named AF_UNIX stream sockets (again)
aggressive caching is disabled on minimal NSEC* ranges (!826)
This improves cache effectivity with DNSSEC black lies and also accidentally
works around bug in proofs-of-nonexistence from F5 BIG-IP load-balancers.
aarch64 support, even kernels with ARM64_VA_BITS >= 48 (#216, !797)
This is done by working around a LuaJIT incompatibility. Please report bugs.
lua tables for C modules are more strict by default, e.g. nsid.foo
will throw an error instead of returning nil (!797)
systemd: basic watchdog is now available and enabled by default (#275)

Bugfixes¶

TCP to upstream: fix unlikely case of sending out wrong message length (!816)
http module: fix problems around maintenance of ephemeral certs (!819)
http module: also send intermediate TLS certificate to clients,
if available and luaossl >= 20181207 (!819)
send EDNS with SERVFAILs, e.g. on validation failures (#180, !827)
prefill module: avoid crash on empty zone file (#474, !840)
rebinding module: avoid excessive iteration on blocked attempts (!842)
rebinding module: fix crash caused by race condition (!842)
rebinding module: log each blocked query only in verbose mode (!842)
cache: automatically clear stale reader locks (!844)

Module API changes¶

lua modules may omit casting parameters of layer functions (!797)

Knot Resolver 4.0.0 (2019-04-18)¶

Incompatible changes¶

see upgrading guide: https://knot-resolver.readthedocs.io/en/stable/upgrading.html
configuration: trust_anchors aliases .file, .config() and .negative were removed (!788)
configuration: trust_anchors.keyfile_default is no longer accessible (!788)
daemon: -k/–keyfile and -K/–keyfile-ro options were removed
meson build system is now used for builds (!771)
build with embedded LMBD is no longer supported
default modules dir location has changed
DNSSEC is enabled by default
upstream packages for Debian now require systemd
libknot >= 2.8 is required
net.list() output format changed (#448)
net.listen() reports error when address-port pair is in use
bind to DNS-over-TLS port by default (!792)
stop versioning libkres library
default port for web management and APIs changed to 8453

Improvements¶

policy.TLS_FORWARD: if hostname is configured, send it on wire (!762)
hints module: allow configuring the TTL and change default from 0 to 5s
policy module: policy.rpz() will watch the file for changes by default
packaging: lua cqueues added to default dependencies where available
systemd: service is no longer auto-restarted on configuration errors
always send DO+CD flags upstream, even in insecure zones (#153)
cache.stats() output is completely new; see docs (!775)
improve usability of table_print() (!790, !801)
add DNS-over-HTTPS support (#280)
docker image supports and exposes DNS-over-HTTPS

Bugfixes¶

predict module: load stats module if config didn’t specify period (!755)
trust_anchors: don’t do 5011-style updates on anchors from files
that were loaded as unmanaged trust anchors (!753)
trust_anchors.add(): include these TAs in .summary() (!753)
policy module: support ‘#’ for separating port numbers, for consistency
fix startup on macOS+BSD when </dev/null and cqueues installed
policy.RPZ: log problems from zone-file level of parser as well (#453)
fix flushing of messages to logs in some cases (notably systemd) (!781)
fix fallback when SERVFAIL or REFUSED is received from upstream (!784)
fix crash when dealing with unknown TA key algorithm (#449)
go insecure due to algorithm support even if DNSKEY is NODATA (!798)
fix mac addresses in the output of net.interfaces() command (!804)
http module: fix too early renewal of ephemeral certificates (!808)

Module API changes¶

kr_straddr_split() changed API a bit (compiler will catch that)
C modules defining *_layer or *_props symbols need to change a bit
See the upgrading guide for details.  It’s detected on module load.

Knot Resolver 3.2.1 (2019-01-10)¶

Bugfixes¶

trust_anchors: respect validity time range during TA bootstrap (!748)
fix TLS rehandshake handling (!739)
make TLS_FORWARD compatible with GnuTLS 3.3 (!741)
special thanks to Grigorii Demidov for his long-term work on Knot Resolver!

Improvements¶

improve handling of timeouted outgoing TCP connections (!734)
trust_anchors: check syntax of public keys in DNSKEY RRs (!748)
validator: clarify message about bogus non-authoritative data (!735)
dnssec validation failures contain more verbose reasoning (!735)
new function trust_anchors.summary() describes state of DNSSEC TAs (!737),
and logs new state of trust anchors after start up and automatic changes
trust anchors: refuse revoked DNSKEY even if specified explicitly,
and downgrade missing the SEP bit to a warning

Knot Resolver 3.2.0 (2018-12-17)¶

New features¶

module edns_keepalive to implement server side of RFC 7828 (#408)
module nsid to implement server side of RFC 5001 (#289)
module bogus_log provides .frequent() table (!629, credit Ulrich Wisser)
module stats collects flags from answer messages (!629, credit Ulrich Wisser)
module view supports multiple rules with identical address/TSIG specification
and keeps trying rules until a “non-chain” action is executed (!678)
module experimental_dot_auth implements an DNS-over-TLS to auth protocol
(!711, credit Manu Bretelle)
net.bpf bindings allow advanced users to use eBPF socket filters

Bugfixes¶

http module: only run prometheus in parent process if using –forks=N,
as the submodule collects metrics from all sub-processes as well.
TLS fixes for corner cases (!700, !714, !716, !721, !728)
fix build with -DNOVERBOSELOG (#424)
policy.{FORWARD,TLS_FORWARD,STUB}: respect net.ipv{4,6} setting (!710)
avoid SERVFAILs due to certain kind of NS dependency cycles, again
(#374) this time seen as ‘circular dependency’ in verbose logs
policy and view modules do not overwrite result finished requests (!678)

Improvements¶

Dockerfile: rework, basing on Debian instead of Alpine
policy.{FORWARD,TLS_FORWARD,STUB}: give advantage to IPv6
when choosing whom to ask, just as for iteration
use pseudo-randomness from gnutls instead of internal ISAAC (#233)
tune the way we deal with non-responsive servers (!716, !723)
documentation clarifies interaction between policy and view modules (!678, !730)

Module API changes¶

new layer is added: answer_finalize
kr_request keeps ::qsource.packet beyond the begin layer
kr_request::qsource.tcp renamed to ::qsource.flags.tcp
kr_request::has_tls renamed to ::qsource.flags.tls
kr_zonecut_add(), kr_zonecut_del() and kr_nsrep_sort() changed parameters slightly

Knot Resolver 3.1.0 (2018-11-02)¶

Incompatible changes¶

hints.use_nodata(true) by default; that’s what most users want
libknot >= 2.7.2 is required

Improvements¶

cache: handle out-of-space SIGBUS slightly better (#197)
daemon: improve TCP timeout handling (!686)

Bugfixes¶

cache.clear(‘name’): fix some edge cases in API (#401)
fix error handling from TLS writes (!669)
avoid SERVFAILs due to certain kind of NS dependency cycles (#374)

Knot Resolver 3.0.0 (2018-08-20)¶

Incompatible changes¶

cache: fail lua operations if cache isn’t open yet (!639)
By default cache is opened after reading the configuration,
and older versions were silently ignoring cache operations.
Valid configuration must open cache using cache.open() or cache.size =
before executing cache operations like cache.clear().
libknot >= 2.7.1 is required, which brings also larger API changes
in case you wrote custom Lua modules, please consult
https://knot-resolver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/lib.html#incompatible-changes-since-3-0-0
in case you wrote custom C modules, please see compile against
Knot DNS 2.7 and adjust your module according to messages from C compiler
DNS cookie module (RFC 7873) is not available in this release,
it will be later reworked to reflect development in IEFT dnsop working group
version module was permanently removed because it was not really used by users;
if you want to receive notifications abou new releases please subscribe to
https://lists.nic.cz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/knot-resolver-announce

Bugfixes¶

fix multi-process race condition in trust anchor maintenance (!643)
ta_sentinel: also consider static trust anchors not managed via RFC 5011

Improvements¶

reorder_RR() implementation is brought back
bring in performace improvements provided by libknot 2.7
cache.clear() has a new, more powerful API
cache documentation was improved
old name “Knot DNS Resolver” is replaced by unambiguous “Knot Resolver”
to prevent confusion with “Knot DNS” authoritative server

Knot Resolver 2.4.1 (2018-08-02)¶

Security¶

fix CVE-2018-10920: Improper input validation bug in DNS resolver component
(security!7, security!9)

Bugfixes¶

cache: fix TTL overflow in packet due to min_ttl (#388, security!8)
TLS session resumption: avoid bad scheduling of rotation (#385)
HTTP module: fix a regression in 2.4.0 which broke custom certs (!632)
cache: NSEC3 negative cache even without NS record (#384)
This fixes lower hit rate in NSEC3 zones (since 2.4.0).
minor TCP and TLS fixes (!623, !624, !626)

Knot Resolver 2.4.0 (2018-07-03)¶

Incompatible changes¶

minimal libknot version is now 2.6.7 to pull in latest fixes (#366)

Security¶

fix a rare case of zones incorrectly dowgraded to insecure status (!576)

New features¶

TLS session resumption (RFC 5077), both server and client (!585, #105)
(disabled when compiling with gnutls < 3.5)
TLS_FORWARD policy uses system CA certificate store by default (!568)
aggressive caching for NSEC3 zones (!600)
optional protection from DNS Rebinding attack (module rebinding, !608)
module bogus_log to log DNSSEC bogus queries without verbose logging (!613)

Bugfixes¶

prefill: fix ability to read certificate bundle (!578)
avoid turning off qname minimization in some cases, e.g. co.uk. (#339)
fix validation of explicit wildcard queries (#274)
dns64 module: more properties from the RFC implemented (incl. bug #375)

Improvements¶

systemd: multiple enabled kresd instances can now be started using kresd.target
ta_sentinel: switch to version 14 of the RFC draft (!596)
support for glibc systems with a non-Linux kernel (!588)
support per-request variables for Lua modules (!533)
support custom HTTP endpoints for Lua modules (!527)

Knot Resolver 2.3.0 (2018-04-23)¶

Security¶

fix CVE-2018-1110: denial of service triggered by malformed DNS messages
(!550, !558, security!2, security!4)
increase resilience against slow lorris attack (security!5)

New features¶

new policy.REFUSE to reply REFUSED to clients

Bugfixes¶

validation: fix SERVFAIL in case of CNAME to NXDOMAIN in a single zone (!538)
validation: fix SERVFAIL for DS . query (!544)
lib/resolve: don’t send unecessary queries to parent zone (!513)
iterate: fix validation for zones where parent and child share NS (!543)
TLS: improve error handling and documentation (!536, !555, !559)

Improvements¶

prefill: new module to periodically import root zone into cache
(replacement for RFC 7706, !511)
network_listen_fd: always create end point for supervisor supplied file descriptor
use CPPFLAGS build environment variable if set (!547)

Knot Resolver 2.2.0 (2018-03-28)¶

New features¶

cache server unavailability to prevent flooding unreachable servers
(Please note that caching algorithm needs further optimization
and will change in further versions but we need to gather operational
experience first.)

Bugfixes¶

don’t magically -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 in some cases
allow large responses for outbound over TCP
fix crash with RR sets with over 255 records

Knot Resolver 2.1.1 (2018-02-23)¶

Bugfixes¶

when iterating, avoid unnecessary queries for NS in insecure parent.
This problem worsened in 2.0.0. (#246)
prevent UDP packet leaks when using TLS forwarding
fix the hints module also on some other systems, e.g. Gentoo.

Knot Resolver 2.1.0 (2018-02-16)¶

Incompatible changes¶

stats: remove tracking of expiring records (predict uses another way)
systemd: re-use a single kresd.socket and kresd-tls.socket
ta_sentinel: implement protocol draft-ietf-dnsop-kskroll-sentinel-01
(our draft-ietf-dnsop-kskroll-sentinel-00 implementation had inverted logic)
libknot: require version 2.6.4 or newer to get bugfixes for DNS-over-TLS

Bugfixes¶

detect_time_jump module: don’t clear cache on suspend-resume (#284)
stats module: fix stats.list() returning nothing, regressed in 2.0.0
policy.TLS_FORWARD: refusal when configuring with multiple IPs (#306)
cache: fix broken refresh of insecure records that were about to expire
fix the hints module on some systems, e.g. Fedora (came back on 2.0.0)
build with older gnutls (conditionally disable features)
fix the predict module to work with insecure records & cleanup code

Knot Resolver 2.0.0 (2018-01-31)¶

Incompatible changes¶

systemd: change unit files to allow running multiple instances,
deployments with single instance now must use kresd@1.service
instead of kresd.service; see kresd.systemd(7) for details
systemd: the directory for cache is now /var/cache/knot-resolver
unify default directory and user to knot-resolver
directory with trust anchor file specified by -k option must be writeable
policy module is now loaded by default to enforce RFC 6761;
see documentation for policy.PASS if you use locally-served DNS zones
drop support for alternative cache backends memcached, redis,
and for Lua bindings for some specific cache operations
REORDER_RR option is not implemented (temporarily)

New features¶

aggressive caching of validated records (RFC 8198) for NSEC zones;
thanks to ICANN for sponsoring this work.
forwarding over TLS, authenticated by SPKI pin or certificate.
policy.TLS_FORWARD pipelines queries out-of-order over shared TLS connection
Beware: Some resolvers do not support out-of-order query processing.
TLS forwarding to such resolvers will lead to slower resolution or failures.
trust anchors: you may specify a read-only file via -K or –keyfile-ro
trust anchors: at build-time you may set KEYFILE_DEFAULT (read-only)
ta_sentinel module implements draft ietf-dnsop-kskroll-sentinel-00,
enabled by default
serve_stale module is prototype, subject to change
extended API for Lua modules

Bugfixes¶

fix build on osx - regressed in 1.5.3 (different linker option name)

Knot Resolver 1.5.3 (2018-01-23)¶

Bugfixes¶

fix the hints module on some systems, e.g. Fedora.
Symptom: undefined symbol: engine_hint_root_file

Knot Resolver 1.5.2 (2018-01-22)¶

Security¶

fix CVE-2018-1000002: insufficient DNSSEC validation, allowing
attackers to deny existence of some data by forging packets.
Some combinations pointed out in RFC 6840 sections 4.1 and 4.3
were not taken into account.

Bugfixes¶

memcached: fix fallout from module rename in 1.5.1

Knot Resolver 1.5.1 (2017-12-12)¶

Incompatible changes¶

script supervisor.py was removed, please migrate to a real process manager
module ketcd was renamed to etcd for consistency
module kmemcached was renamed to memcached for consistency

Bugfixes¶

fix SIGPIPE crashes (#271)
tests: work around out-of-space for platforms with larger memory pages
lua: fix mistakes in bindings affecting 1.4.0 and 1.5.0 (and 1.99.1-alpha),
potentially causing problems in dns64 and workarounds modules
predict module: various fixes (!399)

Improvements¶

add priming module to implement RFC 8109, enabled by default (#220)
add modules helping with system time problems, enabled by default;
for details see documentation of detect_time_skew and detect_time_jump

Knot Resolver 1.5.0 (2017-11-02)¶

Bugfixes¶

fix loading modules on Darwin

Improvements¶

new module ta_signal_query supporting Signaling Trust Anchor Knowledge
using Keytag Query (RFC 8145 section 5); it is enabled by default
attempt validation for more records but require it for fewer of them
(e.g. avoids SERVFAIL when server adds extra records but omits RRSIGs)

Knot Resolver 1.99.1-alpha (2017-10-26)¶
This is an experimental release meant for testing aggressive caching.
It contains some regressions and might (theoretically) be even vulnerable.
The current focus is to minimize queries into the root zone.

Improvements¶

negative answers from validated NSEC (NXDOMAIN, NODATA)
verbose log is very chatty around cache operations (maybe too much)

Regressions¶

dropped support for alternative cache backends
and for some specific cache operations

caching doesn’t yet work for various cases:

negative answers without NSEC (i.e. with NSEC3 or insecure)

+cd queries (needs other internal changes)
positive wildcard answers

spurious SERVFAIL on specific combinations of cached records, printing:
<= bad keys, broken trust chain

make check
a few Deckard tests are broken, probably due to some problems above
also unknown ones?

Knot Resolver 1.4.0 (2017-09-22)¶

Incompatible changes¶

lua: query flag-sets are no longer represented as plain integers.
kres.query.* no longer works, and kr_query_t lost trivial methods
‘hasflag’ and ‘resolved’.
You can instead write code like qry.flags.NO_0X20 = true.

Bugfixes¶

fix exiting one of multiple forks (#150)
cache: change the way of using LMDB transactions.  That in particular
fixes some cases of using too much space with multiple kresd forks (#240).

Improvements¶

policy.suffix: update the aho-corasick code (#200)
root hints are now loaded from a zonefile; exposed as hints.root_file().
You can override the path by defining ROOTHINTS during compilation.
policy.FORWARD: work around resolvers adding unsigned NS records (#248)
reduce unneeded records previously put into authority in wildcarded answers

Knot Resolver 1.3.3 (2017-08-09)¶

Security¶

Fix a critical DNSSEC flaw.  Signatures might be accepted as valid
even if the signed data was not in bailiwick of the DNSKEY used to
sign it, assuming the trust chain to that DNSKEY was valid.

Bugfixes¶

iterate: skip RRSIGs with bad label count instead of immediate SERVFAIL
utils: fix possible incorrect seeding of the random generator
modules/http: fix compatibility with the Prometheus text format

Improvements¶

policy: implement remaining special-use domain names from RFC6761 (#205),
and make these rules apply only if no other non-chain rule applies

Knot Resolver 1.3.2 (2017-07-28)¶

Security¶

fix possible opportunities to use insecure data from cache as keys
for validation

Bugfixes¶

daemon: check existence of config file even if rundir isn’t specified
policy.FORWARD and STUB: use RTT tracking to choose servers (#125, #208)
dns64: fix CNAME problems (#203)  It still won’t work with policy.STUB.

hints: better interpretation of hosts-like files (#204)
also, error out if a bad entry is encountered in the file

dnssec: handle unknown DNSKEY/DS algorithms (#210)
predict: fix the module, broken since 1.2.0 (#154)

Improvements¶

embedded LMDB fallback: update 0.9.18 -> 0.9.21

Knot Resolver 1.3.1 (2017-06-23)¶

Bugfixes¶

modules/http: fix finding the static files (bug from 1.3.0)
policy.FORWARD: fix some cases of CNAMEs obstructing search for zone cuts

Knot Resolver 1.3.0 (2017-06-13)¶

Security¶

Refactor handling of AD flag and security status of resource records.
In some cases it was possible for secure domains to get cached as
insecure, even for a TLD, leading to disabled validation.
It also fixes answering with non-authoritative data about nameservers.

Improvements¶

major feature: support for forwarding with validation (#112).
The old policy.FORWARD action now does that; the previous non-validating
mode is still available as policy.STUB except that also uses caching (#122).
command line: specify ports via @ but still support # for compatibility
policy: recognize 100.64.0.0/10 as local addresses
layer/iterate: do retry repeatedly if REFUSED, as we can’t yet easily
retry with other NSs while avoiding retrying with those who REFUSED
modules: allow changing the directory where modules are found,
and do not search the default library path anymore.

Bugfixes¶

validate: fix insufficient caching for some cases (relatively rare)
avoid putting “duplicate” record-sets into the answer (#198)

Knot Resolver 1.2.6 (2017-04-24)¶

Security¶

dnssec: don’t set AD flag for NODATA answers if wildcard non-existence
is not guaranteed due to opt-out in NSEC3

Improvements¶

layer/iterate: don’t retry repeatedly if REFUSED

Bugfixes¶

lib/nsrep: revert some changes to NS reputation tracking that caused
severe problems to some users of 1.2.5 (#178 and #179)
dnssec: fix verification of wildcarded non-singleton RRsets
dnssec: allow wildcards located directly under the root
layer/rrcache: avoid putting answer records into queries in some cases

Knot Resolver 1.2.5 (2017-04-05)¶

Security¶

layer/validate: clear AD if closest encloser proof has opt-outed
NSEC3 (#169)
layer/validate: check if NSEC3 records in wildcard expansion proof
has an opt-out
dnssec/nsec: missed wildcard no-data answers validation has been
implemented

Improvements¶

modules/dnstap: a DNSTAP support module
(Contributed by Vicky Shrestha)
modules/workarounds: a module adding workarounds for known
DNS protocol violators
layer/iterate: fix logging of glue addresses
kr_bitcmp: allow bits=0 and consequently 0.0.0.0/0 matches in view
and renumber modules.
modules/padding: Improve default padding of responses
(Contributed by Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
New kresc client utility (experimental; don’t rely on the API yet)

Bugfixes¶

trust anchors: Improve trust anchors storage format (#167)
trust anchors: support non-root TAs, one domain per file
policy.DENY: set AA flag and clear AD flag
lib/resolve: avoid unnecessary DS queries
lib/nsrep: don’t treat servers with NOIP4 + NOIP6 flags as timeouted
layer/iterate: During packet classification (answer vs. referral)
don’t analyze AUTHORITY section in authoritative answer if ANSWER
section contains records that have been requested

Knot Resolver 1.2.4 (2017-03-09)¶

Security¶

Knot Resolver 1.2.0 and higher could return AD flag for insecure
answer if the daemon received answer with invalid RRSIG several
times in a row.

Improvements¶

modules/policy: allow QTRACE policy to be chained with other
policies
hints.add_hosts(path): a new property
module: document the API and simplify the code
policy.MIRROR: support IPv6 link-local addresses
policy.FORWARD: support IPv6 link-local addresses
add net.outgoing_{v4,v6} to allow specifying address to use for
connections

Bugfixes¶

layer/iterate: some improvements in cname chain unrolling
layer/validate: fix duplicate records in AUTHORITY section in case
of WC expansion proof
lua: do not truncate cache size to unsigned
forwarding mode: correctly forward +cd flag
fix a potential memory leak
don’t treat answers that contain DS non-existance proof as insecure
don’t store NSEC3 and their signatures in the cache
layer/iterate: when processing delegations, check if qname is at or
below new authority

Knot Resolver 1.2.3 (2017-02-23)¶

Bugfixes¶

Disable storing GLUE records into the cache even in the
(non-default) QUERY_PERMISSIVE mode
iterate: skip answer RRs that don’t match the query
layer/iterate: some additional processing for referrals
lib/resolve: zonecut fetching error was fixed

Knot Resolver 1.2.2 (2017-02-10)¶

Bugfixes:¶

Fix -k argument processing to avoid out-of-bounds memory accesses
lib/resolve: fix zonecut fetching for explicit DS queries
hints: more NULL checks
Fix TA bootstrapping for multiple TAs in the IANA XML file

Testing:¶

Update tests to run tests with and without QNAME minimization

Knot Resolver 1.2.1 (2017-02-01)¶

Security:¶

Under certain conditions, a cached negative answer from a CD query
would be reused to construct response for non-CD queries, resulting
in Insecure status instead of Bogus.  Only 1.2.0 release was affected.

Documentation¶

Update the typo in the documentation: The query trace policy is
named policy.QTRACE (and not policy.TRACE)

Bugfixes:¶

lua: make the map command check its arguments

Knot Resolver 1.2.0 (2017-01-24)¶

Security:¶

In a policy.FORWARD() mode, the AD flag was being always set by mistake.
It is now cleared, as the policy.FORWARD() doesn’t do DNSSEC validation yet.

Improvements:¶

The DNSSEC Validation has been refactored, fixing many resolving
failures.
Add module version that checks for updates and CVEs periodically.
Support RFC7830: EDNS(0) padding in responses over TLS.
Support CD flag on incoming requests.
hints module: previously /etc/hosts was loaded by default, but not anymore.
Users can now actually avoid loading any file.
DNS over TLS now creates ephemeral certs.
Configurable cache.{min,max}_tll option, with max_ttl defaulting to 6 days.
Option to reorder RRs in the response.
New policy.QTRACE policy to print packet contents

Bugfixes:¶

Trust Anchor configuration is now more robust.
Correctly answer NOTIMPL for meta-types and non-IN RR classes.
Free TCP buffer on cancelled connection.
Fix crash in hints module on empty hints file, and fix non-lowercase hints.

Miscellaneous:¶

It now requires knot >= 2.3.1 to link successfully.
The API+ABI for modules changed slightly.
New LRU implementation.

Knot Resolver 1.1.1 (2016-08-24)¶

Bugfixes:¶

Fix 0x20 randomization with retransmit
Fix pass-through for the stub mode
Fix the root hints IPv6 addresses
Fix dst addr for retries over TCP

Improvements:¶

Track RTT of all tried servers for faster retransmit
DAF: Allow forwarding to custom port
systemd: Read EnvironmentFile and user $KRESD_ARGS
systemd: Update systemd units to be named after daemon

Knot Resolver 1.1.0 (2016-08-12)¶

Improvements:¶

RFC7873 DNS Cookies
RFC7858 DNS over TLS
HTTP/2 web interface, RESTful API
Metrics exported in Prometheus
DNS firewall module
Explicit CNAME target fetching in strict mode
Query minimisation improvements
Improved integration with systemd

Knot Resolver 1.0.0 (2016-05-30)¶

Initial release:¶

The first initial release