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 --- UPDATING | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 53a31d6217fd..3c8b9aa84639 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -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.