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by Anand Buddhdev

Hello Knot folk, I'm building Knot RPM packages for use on CentOS 7, and I have to write systemd unit files. Before I write anything, I'd love to hear from others who may already have done such work, to learn from it. Let me describe my ideas. On my existing Knot servers running on CentOS 6 with upstart, I have 2 upstart scripts, viz. knot.conf, and knot-instance.conf. The knot.conf upstart script looks in /etc/knot for .conf files, and for each one, runs knot-instance with the config file as a parameter. This way, a simple "start knot" will start all instances. In systemd, there is better support for instances, so I want to create a knot@.service template unit, and a knot.target target unit. Then, I can create new instances with "systemctl enable knot(a)conf1.conf" and "systemctl enable knot(a)conf2.conf". Finally, running "systemctl start knot.target" should start all configured instances. Does this sound reasonable? I would also like to know about Knot's built-in support for systemd. I can't find any documentation about it. Could one of the devs please describe what Knot actually does if it's compiled with systemd support? Would you mind adding this information to the online documentation? Regards, Anand

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Knot DNS 1.5.1 release

by Jan Kadlec

Hello list! Today, CZ.NIC Labs are releasing Knot DNS version 1.5.1! Let's discuss bugfixes first. Most notably, we've fixed a bug in automatic DNSSEC signing: domain names in RDATA were not lowercased before signing, resulting in bogus signatures. Other interesting bugfixes include proper handling of DDNS prerequisites and some TSIG and EDNS corner cases. As for the new features, we've added a basic support for logging using systemd journal. At the moment, log messages related to zone have the ZONE field set, which means that you can easily filter log messages based on zone name criteria. We plan to add more fields in the future to allow more fine-grained filtering. We're looking forward to your suggestions in this area. Moreover, we've improved DDNS performance for large zones by grouping incoming updates together and executing them as a bulk. This partially mitigates problems with RCU and copying the zone structure, but dynamic updates' running time is still proportional to size of the zone and not to the size of the actual updates. Improving this is one of our top priorities, and code in this release will help us to do so. Finally, we've improved and unified format of logging messages. Most notable, each logging message concerning a zone is now prepended with [zone name]. If you parse the output of log files, be sure to update your scripts. Further, we now enforce a more strict policy for DNSSEC signing keys: at least one active pair of KSK and ZSK keys of the same algorithm must be present at all times, or Knot will refuse to sign the zone. Full changelog: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/blob/v1.5.1/NEWS Sources: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.1.tar.gz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.1.tar.xz GPG signatures: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.1.tar.gz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.1.tar.xz.asc Be sure to let us know if you run into any problems. Have a nice day and thanks for using Knot DNS! Jan -- Jan Kadlec, Knot DNS CZ.NIC Labs http://www.knot-dns.cz ------------------------------------------- Americká 23, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic WWW: http://labs.nic.cz http://www.nic.cz

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workflow for zone signing on master

by chrysn

hello, i'm operating a small hidden master server (four zones spread out to two external NS servers), and want to introduce dnssec. so far, i have kept my zone files in /etc under version control, but now knot starts overwriting them, which is kind of important because of the serial number increments, but also removes file structure, and comments and generally messes with the changelog. i could not quite infer from the documentation what the recommended work flow is in this situation: * will things work if i just make the zone files read-only for bind? * should i keep the original files separate and copy them over to the knot-writable destinations for each refresh? if yes, can that be automated from within knot? in either case, i have to take care of the serial numbers. my current numbering scheme (YYYYMMDDXX with year, month, day and per-day number) produces sufficiently few automated changes that incrementing by 10 each time i edit the unsigned file on one deay would work, but what is best practice there? best regards chrysn ps. please keep me in cc when replying, as i'm not subscribed to the list. -- There's always a bigger fish. -- Qui-Gon Jinn

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Knot DNS 1.5.0 final release

by Jan Kadlec

Hello Knot DNS users! After two release candidates, CZ.NIC Labs proudly release Knot DNS 1.5.0 final. This new version differs greatly from the old 1.4 branch - we've rewritten quite a big portion of our code, and we've built a foundation for next cool features to come. But you've probably read about the changes in 1.5.0 in the previous release messages, so here's just a brief list of improvements that are visible to users: Optional query modules (currently we have dnstap and response synthesization modules implemented), lower memory footprint and improved zone events handling (for those of you with problems with zone expiring, 1.5.0 should not have this problem). We've also done a lot of under-the-hood changes, with lots of refactoring and massive code reductions. Apart from all this, we've been very busy writing tests - our current test code coverage is around 75 percent. Here are the changes we've made from 1.5.0-rc2: Features: - DDNS forwarding reimplemented Improvements: - Transfer sizes logged in bytes if needed - Logging outgoing NOTIFY messages - Logging unauthorized incoming NOTIFYs Bugfixes: - Zone flush planning after bootstrap - Incorrect incoming AXFR message sizes - DDNS signing changes were freed too soon, with possibility of stale data - knotc remote control key handling Changelog: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/blob/v1.5.0/NEWS Sources: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.0.tar.gz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.0.tar.xz GPG signatures: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.0.tar.gz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.0.tar.xz.asc We've done all we could to test Knot DNS 1.5.0 on our end, now it's time you gave it a try! We hope you'll be as happy with it as we are. Today's thanks for bug reports go to Anand Buddhdev and Motomu Utsumi. Have a nice day and thanks for using Knot DNS! Jan -- Jan Kadlec, Knot DNS CZ.NIC Labs http://www.knot-dns.cz ------------------------------------------- Americká 23, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic WWW: http://labs.nic.cz http://www.nic.cz

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Re: [knot-dns-users] Two hidden masters - sending notifications to public slaves.

by Ondřej Surý

Hi Maren, you should turn the explicit notification both in bind and knot. For Knot use "notify-out <slave1> <slave2>;" + "xfr-out <slave1> <slave2>;" See the documentation: https://www.knot-dns.cz/static/documentation/html/configuration.html#master… For Bind use "notify explicit;" + "also-notify;", see: http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch7/xfer.html#notify Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý -- Chief Science Officer ------------------------------------------- CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o. -- Laboratoře CZ.NIC Americka 23, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic mailto:ondrej.sury@nic.cz http://nic.cz/ ------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Maren S. Leizaola" <leizaola(a)udr.hk.com> > To: knot-dns-users(a)lists.nic.cz > Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 1:32:52 PM > Subject: [knot-dns-users] Two hidden masters - sending notifications to public slaves. > Hi, > > We are setting up to do zone generations of two separate hidden masters > which will take turns on the zone generation. > > Public/visible DNS servers "should" get notifies from both servers and > select the one with the with the highest serial number. > > I am planning to run bind on one server and knot on the other. On bind i > have the issue that it would not send notifies to the name servers until > I turned on "notify-soa yes;". However I realise that his will only > notify one single DNS server and introduces a single point of failure. > > Does Knot have any issues sending the notifies. How do I go about > getting this done? > > Regards, > Maren > > _______________________________________________ > knot-dns-users mailing list > knot-dns-users(a)lists.nic.cz > https://lists.nic.cz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/knot-dns-users

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Problem with expiring zones - new stable version

by Jakub Stollmann

Hello, after upgrading to new stable version 1.4.7 we noticed a problem with zones, which are expiring (i've seen some bugfix -expiration timer). It happened second time now, and i think its happening every week (7days). Zones, which expired are selected randomly, count of expired zones is ~8. expired zones are listed like this: somezone.net. type=slave | serial=0 | bootstrap idle | After manually refreshing zone everything works fine. TTL is 86400 - 1 day We are using knot as slave dns. Bind9 is master. Thanks for some advices. Jakub

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Random source port for incoming NOTIFY

by Gonzalo Muñoz

Hello everybody, We're currently testing Knot for a slave server with a BIND master, and we've noticed that NOTIFY messages from this master are not being processed by Knot. As I understand, BIND uses a random source port for NOTIFY messages, as a precaution against attacks. Also, if I understand correctly, when I add a remote master to a zone in Knot, if I don't specify a port for it then it defaults to 53- This leads me to believe that Knot is rejecting NOTIFY messages from the BIND master, because they come from an unexpected, random port. Is this correct? Can this situation be rectified to allow NOTIFY messages from random ports? Thank you very much in advance. Gonzalo Muñoz NIC Chile

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Two hidden masters - sending notifications to public slaves.

by Maren S. Leizaola

Hi, We are setting up to do zone generations of two separate hidden masters which will take turns on the zone generation. Public/visible DNS servers "should" get notifies from both servers and select the one with the with the highest serial number. I am planning to run bind on one server and knot on the other. On bind i have the issue that it would not send notifies to the name servers until I turned on "notify-soa yes;". However I realise that his will only notify one single DNS server and introduces a single point of failure. Does Knot have any issues sending the notifies. How do I go about getting this done? Regards, Maren

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Knot DNS 1.4.7 patch & 1.5.0-rc2 releases

by Jan Kadlec

Hello list! Today we release two new versions of Knot DNS: 1.4.7 patch release and a second release candidate of 1.5.0: 1.4.7 patch release fixes few minor issues and one major one, here they are in the order of their importance: - Assertion failure when serializing NAPTR records - this error can pop up with DDNS and transfers, regular queries are safe. - Knot could send mismatched IXFRs with automatic DNSSEC enabled. - Some DDNS corner cases were not handled properly. - Slave zone EXPIRE timer could be improperly set. - Zone semantic checks gave some false positive warnings. The NAPTR assertion failure is quite serious, so we recommend all users to update. We sincerely apologize for this. Hopefully all the code reduction and refactoring we did will pay off and versions 1.5 and beyond will see fewer patch releases. Changelog: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/blob/v1.4.7/NEWS Sources: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.7.tar.gz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.7.tar.xz GPG signatures: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.7.tar.gz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.4.7.tar.xz.asc 1.5.0 second release candidate contains two new features: - edns-client-subnet support for kdig, see https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/issues/252 for more info - Asynchronous startup is now configurable (config option "asynchronous-start"). Two minor improvements: - Faster zone reload. - Text zone files are no longer written to disk right after bootstrap, but are flushed in accordance with the "zonefile-sync" config option. And the following bugfixes: - Knot did not close connection with remote during transfer when the remote replied with SERVFAIL. - Knot was giving wrong log message during IXFR -> AXFR fallbacks. - Some zone events were not handled properly during reloads. We encourage everyone to give the second release candidate a try and send us as much feedback as possible :) Changelog: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/blob/v1.5.0-rc2/NEWS Sources: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.0-rc2.tar.gz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.0-rc2.tar.xz GPG signatures: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.0-rc2.tar.gz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.5.0-rc2.tar.xz.asc We'd like to thank Anand Buddhdev, Alex Massover and Bastien Durel for feedback and bug reports. Have a nice day and thanks for using Knot DNS! Jan -- Jan Kadlec, Knot DNS CZ.NIC Labs http://www.knot-dns.cz ------------------------------------------- Americká 23, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic WWW: http://labs.nic.cz http://www.nic.cz

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Parallel dynamic DNS updates

by Alex Massover

Hello, I'm trying to understand if Knot can solve our performance problem with big scale dynamic DNS deployment. Currently we use BIND and the performance of Dynamic Updates is insufficient for our requirements. Doing some research I understood that BIND processes updates sequentially and can't really benefit from SMP. I understand how RCU allows parallel reads with updates. But reads is not an issue in our deployment. My question is, does Knot able to process multiple updates in parallel (and not sequentially) and provide a better scale for _updates_? As far as I understand it depends on data structure hierarchy implemented in Knot. -- Alex Massover | Telefónica Digital Architect M +972-54-2279512 alex(a)jajah.com<mailto:alex@jajah.com>

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