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2023-08-23 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.13.1
This release fixes a few issues with in-progress queries and the TCP
transport module.
When using stateful connections, such as TCP, if the full query couldn't
be sent in one go then the query and connection could get stuck as
"in-progress".
This could easily happen if you limited the in-flight queries to 1 and
sent very large DNS messages using the stream binary format.
Additional socket ready checks has been added to flush in-progress
queries as quickly as possible.
The TCP module's handling of errors when continuing in-progress queries
has been fixed. Previously it would interpret EAGAIN as an unrecoverable
error and trigger a reconnect, dropping the quer-y/ies in-progress for
that connection.
Other changes:
- Fix input data buffer to allow for maximum binary blob wire format, 2 byte size + max DNS message
- Mention PowerTools repository for building on CentOS etc
56e180c In-progress, bitmaps, clang-format
bbc48db In-progress
059619d In-progress
752575a TCP EAGAIN
d51a453 Max input
76764d7 64k TCP/DoT payload support
8201f50 Doc
2023-06-15 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.13.0
This release adds a new option `-O tls-sni=...` to set the Server Name
Indication when using TLS transport, currently for DNS-over-TLS and
DNS-over-HTTPS.
dbe84f6 TLS SNI
5fb2282 Add TLS Server Name Indication extension support
2023-05-21 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.12.0
This release fixes a segfault when doing DNS-over-HTTPS and changes the
way maximum queries per second are handled.
The DNS-over-HTTPS module handled reconnecting incorrectly and destroyed
the nghttp2 context during callbacks. Thanks to the help from
@kgillis2000 it was quickly found and fixed.
The way maximum QPS is handled has been changed by Petr Špaček @pspacek
(ISC). The new way solves an over-shoot problem that happened due to
max QPS being counted for the whole runtime and based on completed
queries, not just sent.
A new option `qps_threshold_wait` has also been added. This controls
the threshold for using `nanosleep()` between sending packet and the
default is measured on start-up. If the time between packets, based on
max QPS `-Q`, is smaller then no sleep will be performed. This improves
performance when doing high max QPS limiting.
Other changes:
- `dnsperf`: Statistics output
- Fixed missing connection statistics if only reconnections happened
- Flush output to allow pipe/grep processing
- Add percentage on reconnections based on total connections
- Support OpenSSL 3.0+
9aca046 OpenSSL 3.0
6d3d6b4 Stats, DoH
316f901 qps_threshold_wait
ed52770 WIP: use busy wait only if necessary
32229b6 WIP: import nanosleep benchmark
1842b88 Fix dnsperf -Q to not overshot target value
2023-03-16 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.11.2
Fixed long option argument handling (again), wasn't completely fixed
in v2.11.1.
e6dbd78 Long opt
2023-03-10 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.11.1
Fixed long option argument handling that broke in v2.11.0 and enhanced
long option help text, now includes argument type.
034e893 Long opt
2023-02-08 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.11.0
A couple of new features this release courtesy of Petr Špaček
@pspacek (ISC) and a bunch of bugfixes.
First off `dnsperf` can now do verbose statistics during each interval
when using `-S`, see long option `verbose-interval-stats`.
Next is a new latency histogram output using data structures (hg64)
created by Tony Finch @fanf2 (ISC), see long option
`latency-histogram`. These will also be shown during `-S` when used
together with `verbose-interval-stats`.
Lastly a small change to boolean long options, they no longer require
a value (`=yes`) to be enabled.
Bugfixes:
- Make sure the number of outstanding queries don't go negative,
happens if queries are timed out before being sent
- Fixed #208:
- `recv_one()`: Fix handling errno, only store EAGAIN if no other
error has been received
- `do_recv()`: Don't break on error as it will count it as a received
message
- Treat `EBADF` as `EAGAIN` for stateful connections, receive thread
might read from a closed socket if send thread is reconnecting
- `dnsperf`: warn if -c, -T, -q, -Q values are auto-adjusted
- Fixed #222: don't process unexpected message if the message is
suppressed
14db835 Opt arg
fb81481 Suppress unexpected
64b8c6d stats_t initialization
8290775 Fix first call to diff_stats
4f8bd24 Compile support histograms
a9b4f04 External code, latency histograms
d1f4b65 add detailed latency histograms
044e3a2 data structures for detailed latency histograms
ad3fb03 Opt, verbose statistics
38bc936 Command usage warnings
9f31595 Bad file descriptor
d3650eb Receive socket error handling
84c8e72 Negative outstanding
e7df5e1 Clarify meaning of dnsperf -S output in the man page
830eb43 verbose interval stats for dnsperf
2022-11-11 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.10.0
This release adds a binary datafile (DNS wire) format to `dnsperf`
thanks to a contribution from Petr Špaček @pspacek (ISC).
The new binary format greatly improves performance in some cases, for
Petr's case it was testing dynamic updates. Switching to this
pre-compiled DNS wire format increased QPS from 4k to 600k, an increase
of 150 times throughput from `dnsperf`!
See man-page for `-B` for more information and examples how to use.
5971cb9 Doc
a241068 CodeQL
2a7d10a Fix CodeQL workflow
0ce15f6 Fix COPR
0ae4a54 CodeQL
f52e4b1 wire format input
c423aa9 wire format input
2b0693d Input binary format
2021-12-08 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.9.0
This release brings a new message suppression option and a way to control
how many queries are sent over a connection.
You can now suppress the message about receiving unexpected DNS message
IDs by using `-O suppress=unexpected`.
With `-O num-queries-per-conn=<num>` you can now limit the number of
queries sent over a connection before triggering a re-connection, see
the `dnsperf(3)` man-page for more information how this works.
cd9df40 Tests
864a968 Queries per connection
7c5d6ab Suppress unexpected
8e9f4a2 Suppress
2021-11-02 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.8.0
This release fixes response handling for DNS-over-HTTPS when multiple
responses are received within the same receive cycle, and adds a new
option to suppress some of the normal and verbose output.
The network model within dnsperf and resperf can not process more then
one response at a time from a protocol module, so a buffer has been added
to the DNS-over-HTTPS module to handle this situation (this already exists
in all other modules).
The new option `-O suppress=<message,...>` can selectively suppress parts
of the normal and verbose output. Some of these messages might be
excessively displayed due to the network model and depending on what
protocol you use which makes usage harder then necessary. For example
during TCP connection stage, if you end-point is slow to establish
connection you will get a lot of output saying that the socket isn't ready
yet.
6a452b0 DoH response handling
e2828e7 Suppress
2021-09-17 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.7.1
This release fixes issues with constructing wire-format DNS when the
domain names includes escaped characters such as `\123` or `\.`.
Other changes:
- Bump Debian package compat level to 10
4873f02 DNS encoding
c4eccc0 debhelper
2021-08-09 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.7.0
This release adds DNS-over-HTTPS support!
DNS-over-HTTPS can be used by specifying transport mode `doh` and you
should also look at the dnsperf(1) man-page (or `-H`) for the extended
options `doh-uri` and `doh-method`, which controls aspects of DoH/HTTP/2
that you might want to set.
Other fixes:
- Add check when constructing DNS packet so that total length of labels
does not exceed 255 bytes
- Fix connection/reconnection state handling for DoT transport
- Fix event handling by initializing them directly when opening the
sockets, otherwise events could have been missed which would give
incorrect statistics
61b5eac Tests with dumdumd
d71071c Tests with dumdumd
b42f92e DoH sending
2fa40bb Net stats
f7f8692 DoH fixes
ea62b49 DoH concurrent streams
91929f1 DoH reconnect
17660e6 DoH fixes
5276aa6 resperf buckets
585860e Packages
3ffc601 Fixes
1570609 Man-page
6bcadc7 README
f81adf1 Fixes
1acd71f Code structure
6c47876 Fixes
2d379f4 Fixes
4d5384b Fixes
cee93b3 Initial DNS-over-HTTPS support implementation
4ff3ebc Events
8b24bbf DoT state
6a5b5ef Fix too long name
71fa09f long opts
2021-05-31 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.6.0
This release adds EDNS options parameter `-E` to `resperf` and a script
for generating EDNS Client Subnet options (see `contrib/ecs-gen`).
d29d880 ECS opt
877f31e edns option
2021-03-25 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.5.2
This release tweaks the reconnect code for TCP and DoT.
For TCP, atomic operations are used to signal the need to reconnect
from the receiving thread to the sending, as the sending is the one in
charge of reconnecting.
This speeds up detection of connection lost which reduces the amount of
lost queries on a disconnect.
This change does not affect DoT as much, as the SSL context shared
between the threads are protected by a mutex.
But a bug was found in `sendto()` for DoT that could drop a query if
the socket was busy sending.
The connect and reconnect socket events has been split into connecting,
connected and reconnecting, reconnected. This is to report more correct
reconnect events when it comes to DoT, because the connection can be
lost while negotiating TLS.
Lastly, additional tests has been added for the network code.
d9e5663 net test
22f49df network tests
8e5b56e reconnect
2021-03-22 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.5.1
This release re-adds support for TYPEnnn and ANY in the datafile, this
was missed during the removal of the dependency on BINDs development
libraries in v2.4.0.
Also note that with v2.5.0, this software now depends on Concurrency
Kit (ck) for atomic operations.
924e6ea ANY
0a444c0 TYPEnnn
2021-03-12 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.5.0
This release adds re-connection support for TCP and DoT protocol,
new options to `resperf` and fixes a few bugs.
`dnsperf` and `resperf` will now try to re-connect when they lose a TCP
or DoT connection, and with that comes a few new statistics metrics.
For `dnsperf`, if a connection oriented protocol is used, it will now
show the total number of re-connections made and the connection latency.
For `resperf` it also shows the total number of re-connections made and
the gnuplot data now contains the total number of connections made and
the connection latency for each interval.
Beside re-connection support, improvements have been made when it comes
to tracking socket readiness while connections are established which
should generate less warnings about "socket not ready".
New `resperf` options:
- `-R`: Reopen the datafile if it runs out of data before the testing
is completed. This allows for long running tests on very small and
simple query datafile.
- `-F <fall_behind>`: Sets the maximum number of queries that can fall
behind being sent. `resperf` will stop when this many queries should
have been sent and it can be relative easy to hit if `-m <max_qps>`
is set too high.
The default is 1000 and setting it to zero (0) disables the check.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed port handling for host/network format when setting client side
port with `-x`
- Fix support for quoted characters, `\000` and `\.`, in domain names,
this was lost when removing BIND's internal development libraries
- Fix issue in `dnsperf`, it would loop forever if no connection could
be established
- Fix potential buffer overrun in `resperf` when using response id
for `queries[]`
- DoT: Fix bug when sending from buffer
Other changes:
- Always use `IPV6_V6ONLY` socket option for IPv6
- Add man-page on `-W` option added in v2.4.0
- Reformat man-pages
- `resperf`:
- Try and process more request each run to hopefully not hit max
outstanding so easy when high QPS
- Add default value to `-C` so it shows in help
9308361 man-page format
0e52fb4 man-page, opts, tuneups
e36211d stats
d9b9ba3 Response qid to index
2b2c37e fixes, reconnection
acd31e5 dname quote
de8f049 net
2021-02-23 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.4.2
This release fixes a few issues with reading of the datafile which
could lead to "ran out of data" errors.
The problem was that reading from the datafile was done before finding
a socket to send it on, or socket readyness, and that lead to progressing
the queries without really doing anything.
Another issues that's been fixed was that if the read lines perfectly
aligned with the buffer, it would be treated like EOF and caused an exit.
9937287 resperf TLS
6736956 datafile
55faec6 ran out of data
2021-02-09 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.4.1
This release fixes an issue with the socket readiness function that
could cause a buffer overflow (`-T 10 -c 2000`) due to `select()` being
limited to check 1023 sockets. `poll()` is now used which has no limit.
There has also been a few fixes to the contrib script `queryparse` that
has to do with python v2 and v3 compatibility and better exception
handling.
24e5bee poll
7dceca7 Handle only common exceptions
5603294 Fix error on python3
48fa517 TSIG
2020-12-09 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.4.0
This release removes the dependency on BIND's internal development
libraries! This make building and packaging a lot easier and less
troublesome in the future.
This software now depends only on OpenSSL (for TSIG feature) with an
optional depend on LDNS (for dynamic updates feature).
New option:
- Transport mode option `-m`/`-M` now recognizes `dot` alongside `tls`
for encrypted DNS
- Added `-W` for outputting warnings and errors to stdout
Other changes / bugfixes:
- Fix potential memory leak of query descriptions when using verbose
- Only use TLS v1.2 and above for DoT/TLS
- Add a lot of tests
- Add coverage testing
d17743b datafile
434bbf2 Checks, coverage, log, test IPv6
9fb305f Coverage
123ebf1 DOT, TLS version, Sonarcloud
26df0bd BIND dependency
ee660e7 Sonarcloud
c9ea0ab base64
4e9be82 TSIG
4275045 EDNS, https
7c3f51c BIND dependency
6e1be5d ISC dependencies
e36f19d Buffer
485cdd2 ISC mem, tests
663dc24 Namespace clash
2c44987 dynamic updates, edns, headers
5d109b2 Disable HMAC
79cae93 datafile, query desc
663d814 net
c867de6 isc_result_t
651ee5d opt
7d30804 isc_result_t
58ad313 ISC linked list
7b4da6d Info
8079ebc Tests
e3fb685 Tests
2bb603a Tests
297b23b Test
c4e244b Test
1caac35 Makefile
e9f2aaa Coverage
27af853 Fix typo in configure.ac
521faa6 Badges
8fa2ec4 LGTM
75c89e5 COPR
2020-05-15 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.3.4
This release adds a workaround, thanks to patch from Petr Menšík, for
building on systems with BIND 9.16. Also improves error handling by
using thread-safe `strerror_r()` instead of `strerror()`.
88c3ef4 strerror
1917f67 openSUSE Tumbleweed
fd39641 AS_VAR_APPEND
aeeef74 bind 9.16
07732cd BIND, libcrypto, clang format
08146e3 Add crypto library to checks
e4307c2 Add checks to pass with BIND 9.16
3f9aed3 Prepare check for bind 9.11/9.16 return types
2020-05-06 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.3.3
This release changes the behavior of `dnsperf` and `resperf` when it
comes to TCP and TLS connections, and updates package building using
COPR (thanks to patch from Petr Menšík (Red Hat)).
Connection reset or close are now treated as "try again" so that the
run is finished and not aborted. As SIGPIPE might be received on usage
of closed connections it's now blocked in `dnsperf` and handled as
a fatal action in `resperf`.
62885ad SIGPIPE
106c50e connection
3ef0899 README
61a3b1c COPR
35efa27 COPR
46b37a1 COPR
5c126ae COPR
1c51b76 Provide full URL in spec
2a4dd0e Allow recreation of source archive
931d6cc Do not require root for archive creation
2019-08-23 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.3.2
This release fixes a buffer overflow when using TSIG and algorithms
with digests larger then SHA256, reported by Mukund Sivaraman. Also
fix build dependencies for `sqrt()`.
e54aa58 Digest
bca5d8d sqrt
d9eaa5b Package
2019-07-24 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.3.1
After a report and additional confirming results the use of `poll()` in
the network receive code for TCP and TLS has been removed. This `poll()`
initially gave better results while testing in a docker container on
it's loopback interface but when on physical networks it reduced
performance to 1/12th, so it had to go.
Thanks to Brian Wellington (Akamai/Nominum) for the initial report and
testing, and to Jan Hák (CZ.NIC) for testing and confirming the results.
Bugfix:
- Fix check for having more DNS messages in the receive buffer for TCP
and TLS
670db9c TCP/TLS receive
b8925b2 recvbuf have more
2019-07-17 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.3.0
This release adds support for DNS over TCP and TLS which can be selected
by using the mode option for `dnsperf` and `resperf`. The default server
port used is now determined by the transport mode, udp/tcp port 53 and
tls port 853.
Note that the mode option is different between the program because it was
already taken for `resperf`.
`dnsperf` changes:
- Add `-m` for setting transport mode, `udp` (default), `tcp` or `tls`
- Add verbose messages about network readiness and congestion
`resperf` changes:
- Add `-M` for setting transport mode, `udp` (default), `tcp` or `tls`
- Add `-v` for verbose mode to report about network readiness and
congestion
ffa49cf LGTM, SonarCloud
4cd5441 TLS
35624d1 TCP send, socket ready loop
fbf76aa TCP support
5988b06 Funding
2019-01-28 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.2.1
The commit pulled from a fork that used `inttypes.h`, instead of ISC
internal types, missed to remove the old conversion specifier.
This was reported and fixed by Vladimír Čunát.
9534ce1 remove visible "u" characters after numbers
2019-01-25 Jerry Lundström
Release 2.2.0
First release by DNS-OARC with a rework of the code to use autotools,
semantic versioning 2.0 and bugfixes pulled from other's forks.
Bugfixes:
- Fix infinite loop in argument parsing
- Fix min/max latency summing for multithreaded runs
- Fix calculation of per_thread socket counts
- Fixes to queryparse
- Mark correctly end of file
- Support python3
- Stop looping on end of file undefinitely
- Fix compilation issues and work around missing `dns_fixedname_initname()`
- Clang `scan-build` fixes
Other changes:
- add "configure --with-bind" option
- Handle bind library changes to HMAC (see #22) and other differences
between versions
- Workaround issue on FreeBSD (see #23)
- Use `snprintf()` and OpenBSD's `strlcat()`
- Add/update build dependencies for Debia, Ubuntu, CentOS, FreeBSD
and OpenBSD
ae9bc91 Clang format
b9bb085 CI, buildbot
b84e41b Autotools, README, changelog
a2e1732 License
9dcb661 Remove $Id markers, Principal Author and Reviewed tags from the
full source tree
0677bf0 Use dns_fixedname_initname() where possible
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6fdb2f7 Fix queryparse
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e31ddf4 fix calculation of per_thread socket counts
3bd7fb4 Fix min/max latency summing for multithreaded runs
2207e27 Fix infinite loop in argument parsing.
3bfe97a Include the github URL; remove the bug reports section.
0cee04a Add note about bug reports.
62c4b32 add .gitignore
c45f0be Initial import.
149172b Initial commit
2015-12-15
Release 2.1.0.0
In addition to various bug fixes, the following new capabilities
were added in this release:
- The `-C` option was added to `resperf`. This option enables the local
server to act as multiple clients. By default, the local server
acts as a single client.
- the `-T` option was added to `dnsperf`. This option separates the
number of clients from the number of threads and allows more
clients to be simulated effectively. Note that using this option
impacts CPU and memory, so we recommend limiting the number of
threads.
2012-03-01
Release 2.0.0.0
In the `dnsperf` command, the following changes occurred:
- The socket buffer size is no longer set to 32 kilobytes by default.
- A new `-c clients` option was added to enable the server to act as
multiple clients. Each client uses the same source IP address with a
unique source port. Use the `clients` argument to specify the number of
clients represented by the server. We recommend limiting the number of
clients represented by the server because the `dnsperf` process uses two
threads for each client (one thread for sent packets and one for
received packets), which impacts CPU and memory.
- Example query files are no longer included with the `dnsperf` program.
Nominum provides a sample query file that is available for download at:
ftp://ftp.nominum.com/pub/nominum/dnsperf/data/
- Latency reporting improved. When the `-v` (verbose mode) option is
configured with the `dnsperf` command, the command output now includes
latency measurements and the DNS RCODE of each response. This enables
users to create their own latency graphs.
- Performance was enhanced on modern operating systems so that faster
name servers can be tested.
- The `dnsperf` command output is enhanced to display more information in a
compact format.
The following options were removed from the `dnsperf` command:
- The `-A` option for displaying command line arguments passed to the
`dnsperf` tool in the final statistics output. Now, the `dnsperf` command
output always displays command line arguments.
- The `-T` option for printing a histogram showing response latency after
completing a test run. Now, the `-v` option enables users to include
latency measurements in the `dnsperf` command output.
- The `-H` option for configuring the number of buckets for which response
latency is displayed. Now, the `-v` option enables users to include
latency measurements in the `dnsperf` command output.
- The `-1` option for configuring the `dnsperf` tool to run through the input
file exactly one time. (Now, you use the `-n 1` option to configure the
`dnsperf` tool to run through the input file one time.)
- The `-c` option for including the number of responses received (for
each DNS RCODE) in the final statistics output. Now, DNS RCODE responses
are always reported.
In the `resperf` command, the following changes occurred:
- The socket buffer size is no longer set to 32 kilobytes by default.
- The `-A` option, which displayed command line arguments passed to the
`resperf` tool in the final statistics output, was removed. Now, the
`resperf` command output always displays command line arguments.
2011-12-22
Release 1.0.2.0
This release adds support for RHEL6-64 and for Solaris 10 x86-64.
Some new configuration options have been added. You can now specify:
- the local port from which to send requests
- the local address from which to send requests
- the maximum number of runs through the input file, up
to the timeout limit.
- when using TSIG, algorithms other than hmac-md5 can be used.
One default has been changed:
- The maximum number of outstanding requests now defaults
to 100.
A new example query file for IPv6, `queryfile-example-ipv6`, is now
included with the distribution.
2008-01-10
Release 1.0.1.0
This release makes binary builds of `dnsperf` available in addition to
the source code version previously released.
This release of `dnsperf` includes a sample query file containing
100,000 queries to help with performance testing. This query file is
useful for checking latencies or a continuous `dnsperf` run. In the
binary distribution, this file is found at:
/usr/local/nom/examples/dnsperf/queryfile-example-100thousand
In the source distribution, it is at:
./examples/queryfile-example-100thousand
where `.` is the directory made by extracting the source tarball.
Nominum recommends using a query file with at least 3 million queries
for a full `resperf` run as described in the man page; we make such a
file available for download at:
ftp://ftp.nominum.com/pub/nominum/dnsperf/data/queryfile-example-3million.gz
The following fix is included in the source distribution:
- 20996: `makefile.in` does not allow overriding `mandir`
The `--mandir` argument to `configure`, which allows the user to
specify the location man pages are installed, was incorrectly
ignored.
`queryparse` is a contributed program available in the source
distribution of `dnsperf`. It can be found at `contrib/queryparse/`.
The following changes were made to that program:
- 19717: `contrib/queryparse` includes outgoing queries
The `queryparse` script had no way of distinguishing between incoming
queries and outgoing queries when applied to a traffic trace from a
caching server. This was addressed by adding a new flag (`-r`) that,
when included in the command line, will keep queries with
`RD=0`. Otherwise, it will default to discarding them.
- The ability to parse responses instead of queries was added.
- A check was added to avoid short packets.
- Logic was added to detect link type and correctly set the initial
offset to handle both Ethernet and Cisco HDLC frames.
- `queryparse` now uses `pcapy` instead of the `btk` python `libcap` module.
Note that announcements of new releases of `dnsperf` are sent to the
mailing list: dnsperf-announce@nominum.com. To be added to the
mailing list, send a message to dnsperf-announce-request@nominum.com
with "subscribe" as the subject.
Known Issues:
- None.
2006-12-21
Release 1.0.0.1
This release addresses the following issue in the `dnsperf` program:
- 18838/18782: `dnsperf` slow down issue
Because of an error in how timeout checking was being done, queries
were rarely timing out, so the number of valid queries in flight kept
dropping. This error has been corrected.
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