git: 72d0d523e9ba - main - UPDATING: Document unbound support of RFC8375
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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 06:33:03 UTC
The branch main has been updated by cy:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=72d0d523e9ba740d21ae6b03902eacd6100dd594
commit 72d0d523e9ba740d21ae6b03902eacd6100dd594
Author: Cy Schubert <cy@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-01-24 06:21:49 +0000
Commit: Cy Schubert <cy@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-01-24 06:30:55 +0000
UPDATING: Document unbound support of RFC8375
As of unbound 1.14.0rc1, as per RFC8375 unbound by default blocks
'home.arpa'. Document this new behaviour and how to unblock it.
Reported by: avg
Discussed with: glebius, avg
RFC: 8375, Section 6: Security Considerations
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diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 53a31d6217fd..3c8b9aa84639 100644
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@@ -27,6 +27,21 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 14.x IS SLOW:
world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
+20211202:
+ Unbound support for RFC8375: The special-use domain 'home.arpa' is
+ by default blocked. To unblock it use a local-zone nodefault
+ statement in unbound.conf:
+ local-zone: "home.arpa." nodefault
+
+ Or use another type of local-zone to override with your choice.
+
+ The reason for this is discussed in Section 6.1 of RFC8375:
+ Because 'home.arpa.' is not globally scoped and cannot be secured
+ using DNSSEC based on the root domain's trust anchor, there is no way
+ to tell, using a standard DNS query, in which homenet scope an answer
+ belongs. Consequently, users may experience surprising results with
+ such names when roaming to different homenets.
+
20211230:
The macros provided for the manipulation of CPU sets (e.g. CPU_AND)
have been modified to take 2 source arguments instead of only 1.