All DNS servers support EDNS, by using this by default, it will allow larger responses without the need to switch to TCP. If by chance a DNS server is hit that doesn't support EDNS, this is detected due to the lack of the OPT RR in the response and will be automatically retried without EDNS.
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
`ares_channel` is defined as `typedef struct ares_channeldata *ares_channel;`. The problem with this, is it embeds the pointer into the typedef, which means an `ares_channel` can never be declared as `const` as if you write `const ares_channel channel`, that expands to `struct ares_channeldata * const ares_channel` and not `const struct ares_channeldata *channel`.
We will now typedef `ares_channel_t` as `typedef struct ares_channeldata ares_channel_t;`, so if you write `const ares_channel_t *channel`, it properly expands to `const struct ares_channeldata *channel`.
We are maintaining the old typedef for API compatibility with existing integrations, and due to typedef expansion this should not even cause any compiler warnings for existing code. There are no ABI implications with this change. I could be convinced to keep existing public functions as `ares_channel` if a sufficient argument exists, but internally we really need make this change for modern best practices.
This change will allow us to internally use `const ares_channel_t *` where appropriate. Whether or not we decide to change any public interfaces to use `const` may require further discussion on if there might be ABI implications (I don't think so, but I'm also not 100% sure what a compiler internally does with `const` when emitting machine code ... I think more likely ABI implications would occur going the opposite direction).
FYI, This PR was done via a combination of sed and clang-format, the only manual code change was the addition of the new typedef, and a couple doc fixes :)
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
When referring to another c-ares function use \fI function(3) \fP to let
the webpage rendering find and cross-link them appropriately.
SEE ALSO references should be ".BR name (3),", with a space before the
open parenthesis. This helps the manpage to HTML renderer.
Closes#565
As per #266, TCP queries are basically broken. If we get a partial reply, things just don't work, but unlike UDP, TCP may get fragmented and we need to properly handle that.
I've started creating a basic parser/buffer framework for c-ares for memory safety reasons, but it also helps for things like this where we shouldn't be manually tracking positions and fetching only a couple of bytes at a time from a socket. This parser/buffer will be expanded and used more in the future.
This also resolves#206 by allowing NULL to be specified for some socket callbacks so they will auto-route to the built-in c-ares functions.
Fixes: #206, #266
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
The acountry utility required a third party DNSBL service from nerd.dk in order to operate. That service has been offline for about a year and there is no other comparable service offering. We are keeping the code in the repository as an example, but no longer building it.
Fixes: #537
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
Add a new ARES_OPT_UDP_MAX_QUERIES option with udp_max_queries parameter that can be passed to ares_init_options(). This value defaults to 0 (unlimited) to maintain existing compatibility, any positive number will cause new UDP ephemeral ports to be created once the threshold is reached, we'll call these 'connections' even though its technically wrong for UDP.
Implementation Details:
* Each server entry in a channel now has a linked-list of connections/ports for udp and tcp. The first connection in the list is the one most likely to be eligible to accept new queries.
* Queries are now tracked by connection rather than by server.
* Every time a query is detached from a connection, the connection that it was attached to will be checked to see if it needs to be cleaned up.
* Insertion, lookup, and searching for connections has been implemented as O(1) complexity so the number of connections will not impact performance.
* Remove is_broken from the server, it appears it would be set and immediately unset, so must have been invalidated via a prior patch. A future patch should probably track consecutive server errors and de-prioritize such servers. The code right now will always try servers in the order of configuration, so a bad server in the list will always be tried and may rely on timeout logic to try the next.
* Various other cleanups to remove code duplication and for clarification.
Fixes Bug: #444
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
A lot of time has passed since the original timeouts and retry counts were chosen. We have on and off issues reported due to this. Even on geostationary satellite links, latency is worst case around 1.5s. This PR changes the per-server timeout to 2s and the retry count lowered from 4 to 3.
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
All files have their licence and copyright information clearly
identifiable. If not in the file header, they are set separately in
.reuse/dep5.
All used license texts are provided in LICENSES/
As per #487, documentation states the port should be in network byte
order, but we can see from the test cases using MockServers on
different ports that this is not the case, it is definitely in host
byte order.
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
To make them render "nicer" in both terminals and on the website.
- Removes the bold
- Removes .PP lines
- Indents them more like proper code style
Fix By: Daniel Stenberg (@bagder)
There was a lot of windows initialization code specific to the era that predates Windows Vista such as reading DNS configuration from the registry, and dynamically loading libraries to get access to functions that didn't exist in XP or earlier releases.
Vista was released in January 2007, and was EOL'd in 2017, and support for Vista is still maintained with this patch set.
XP was EOL'd in Apr 8 2014.
I believe the last OS based on something earlier than Vista was POSReady 2009, as it was XP based for some reason, and that was EOL'd in January 2019. Considering any POS system falls under the PCI-DSS rules, they aren't allow to run POSReady 2009 any more so there is no reason to try to continue supporting such systems.
We have also targeted with our build system Vista support for the last few years, and while developers could change the target, we haven't had any reports that they have.
ares_gethostbyname() and ares_getaddrinfo() do a lot of similar things, however ares_getaddrinfo() has some desirable behaviors that should be imported into ares_gethostbyname(). For one, it sorts the address lists for the most likely to succeed based on the current system routes. Next, when AF_UNSPEC is specified, it properly handles search lists instead of first searching all of AF_INET6 then AF_INET, since ares_gethostbyname() searches in parallel. Therefore, this PR should also resolve the issues attempted in #94.
A few things this PR does:
1. ares_parse_a_reply() and ares_parse_aaaa_reply() had very similar code to translate struct ares_addrinfo into a struct hostent as well as into struct ares_addrttl/ares_addr6ttl this has been split out into helper functions of ares__addrinfo2hostent() and ares__addrinfo2addrttl() to prevent this duplicative code.
2. ares_getaddrinfo() was apparently never honoring HOSTALIASES, and this was discovered once ares_gethostbyname() was turned into a wrapper, the affected test cases started failing.
3. A slight API modification to save the query hostname into struct ares_addrinfo as the last element of name. Since this is the last element, and all user-level instances of struct ares_addrinfo are allocated internally by c-ares, this is not an ABI-breaking change nor would it impact any API compatibility. This was needed since struct hostent has an h_name element.
4. Test Framework: MockServer tests via TCP would fail if more than 1 request was received at a time which is common when ares_getaddrinfo() queries for both A and AAAA records simultaneously. Infact, this was a long standing issue in which the ares_getaddrinfo() test were bypassing TCP alltogether. This has been corrected, the message is now processed in a loop.
5. Some tests had to be updated for overall correctness as they were invalid but somehow passing prior to this change.
Change By: Brad House (@bradh352)
CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) was introduced in RFC 6844.
This has been obsoleted by RFC 8659. This commit added the possibility
to query CAA resource records with adig and adds a parser for CAA
records, that can be used in conjunction with ares_query(3).
Closes Bug: #292
Fix By: Daniela Sonnenschein (@lxdicted)
Originally started by Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) with #123, this patch reorganizes the c-ares source tree to have a more modern layout. It also fixes out of tree builds for autotools, and automatically builds the tests if tests are enabled. All tests are passing which tests each of the supported build systems (autotools, cmake, nmake, mingw gmake). There may be some edge cases that will have to be caught later on for things I'm not aware of.
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
Brad House
Daniel Stenberg
Yijie Ma
Brad Spencer
lifenjoiner
Manish Mehra
Gregor Jasny
Martin Holeš
Dustin Lundquist
Daniela Sonnenschein
Gisle Vanem