Bug 241613

Summary: dns/bind914: add option for using accf_dns (dnsready accept filter)
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Eugene Grosbein <eugen>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Mathieu Arnold <mat>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: freebsd, rene
Priority: --- Flags: bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (mat)
eugen: maintainer-feedback?
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
URL: https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2012-October/088862.html
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add ACCFDNS
eugen: maintainer-approval?
files/extrapatch-interfacemgr.c eugen: maintainer-approval?

Description Eugene Grosbein freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-10-31 09:46:21 UTC 
Created attachment 208727 [details]
add ACCFDNS

Let's add new option ACCFDNS to the port dns/bind914 that allows BIND to prefer accf_dns over accf_data, if accf_dns is available. The patch was submitted upstream by David Malone 7 years ago but ignored:

https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2012-October/088862.html

The option is disabled by default, so default built is not affected and PORTREVISION not changed.
Comment 1 Eugene Grosbein freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-10-31 09:47:43 UTC 
Created attachment 208728 [details]
files/extrapatch-interfacemgr.c
Comment 2 Mathieu Arnold freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-11-12 15:42:50 UTC 
I do not think this is a good idea.  DNS is hard, and I do not feel confident about anything else than BIND9 deciding if what it receives is a valid DNS packet.
Comment 3 Eugene Grosbein freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-11-12 16:43:36 UTC 
The option is disabled by default, why don't we add it for users that know what they do?
Comment 4 Rene Ladan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-04-30 11:05:38 UTC 
Is this relevant for dns/bind916 too?
Comment 5 Eugene Grosbein freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-04-30 11:24:28 UTC 
(In reply to Rene Ladan from comment #4)

It is relevant for bind916 even more, because this version disabled usage of dataready accept filter too. However, the patch needs correction. I can correct it if maintainer is willing to accept the idea.
Comment 6 Leo Vandewoestijne 2020-07-01 21:27:40 UTC 
I've had the options always in my kernels, unsure if it truly was deployed by vendors. My guess about that turns out to be correct.

In the 9.14 case it looked like improvement.
But in the 9.16 case... why was accf_data dropped?
My thought is it maybe is better to patch this upstream, at ISC.

So, in the days that Paul Vixie still had an email address ending on isc.org he wrote "acceptfilter(9) is almost ideal. accf_dns(9) would be even better"
https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2007-August/067418.html
Makes me wonder even more: why was it never adopted / always ignored?
Comment 7 Mathieu Arnold freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-08-26 13:08:46 UTC 
Committed to 9.11, 9.14 was removed, and in 9.16, the socket code was rewritten and the accept filters are no longer used. (They are in a #if 0 section of the code.)
Comment 8 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-08-26 13:32:46 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: mat
Date: Wed Aug 26 13:32:33 UTC 2020
New revision: 546284
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/546284

Log:
  Add an option to use the DNS accept filter if available.

  PR:		241613
  Submitted by:	eugen

Changes:
  head/dns/bind911/Makefile
  head/dns/bind911/files/extrapatch-interfacemgr.c