[knot-dns-users] Knot DNS 1.6.3 patch release

Hello list, CZ.NIC Labs just released Knot DNS 1.6.3. This patch release contains a few rather serious bug fixes and some minor improvements. Update is highly recommended. When performing our internal benchmarking, we discovered a serious performance drop for large NSEC-signed zones (not NSEC3). In construction of NSEC proofs for NXDOMAIN responses, the server got into a loop possibly causing iteration over all domain names in the zone. The problem was present in Knot DNS since the beginning of the project. We are sorry for not noticing this earlier. The new version also handles TCP short-writes properly. Prior to this fix, sending a response over TCP could fail if the socket send buffer was small (e.g., in default configuration on FreeBSD). In addition, if the buffers are too small, we increase their size on server initialization to make fast-path processing more likely. We also fixed possible out-of-bound memory accesses revealed by American Fuzzy Lop fuzzer. One such an access was in the zone parser (long domain names in zone origin) and two in the packet parser (TSIG with empty RDATA and malformed NAPTR). As for the improvements: The zone parser now supports CDS and CDNSKEY RR types, the documentation now includes default values for TCP config options, and more detailed message is emitted when a zone reload fails. Full changelog: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/blob/v1.6.3/NEWS Sources: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.6.3.tar.xz https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.6.3.tar.gz GPG signatures: https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.6.3.tar.xz.asc https://secure.nic.cz/files/knot-dns/knot-1.6.3.tar.gz.asc Best Regards, Jan -- Jan Včelák, Knot DNS CZ.NIC Labs https://www.knot-dns.cz -------------------------------------------- Milešovská 5, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic WWW: https://labs.nic.cz https://www.nic.cz