resolver: never resend a refused query asking for recursion (closes #206)
check / check (push) Failing after 2m1s

queryDNS resent a query that a server refused, this time asking for
recursion, so on a network that intercepts DNS the answers could come
from a recursive resolver without anyone knowing. A refusal is now only
a refusal, and the server is passed over for the next.

When every server of a zone refuses, the error says so. When every root
server refuses, the error is ErrIntercepted: root servers refuse no
query, so something on the network is answering in their place.
FindAuthoritativeNameservers stops at that error instead of trying each
parent name, so the watcher's log line says it.

A live test asks Quad9, which refuses a query not asking for recursion,
so that the resend cannot come back unnoticed.

Model: opus-5-5
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2026-10-02 01:42:33 +00:00
committed by clawbot
parent 82836b41fd
commit 4d8ddaf8e9
5 changed files with 201 additions and 21 deletions
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@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/miekg/dns"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -295,6 +296,154 @@ func TestQueryNameserver_Refused(t *testing.T) {
assert.Equal(t, "server returned REFUSED", resp.Error)
}
// TestQueryNameserverIP_RecursiveResolverRefused asks Quad9, a public
// recursive resolver, about google.com at both of its addresses. Quad9
// refuses a query that does not ask for recursion and answers one that
// does. The resolver never asks for recursion, so it must be reported
// as refusing, never as answering.
func TestQueryNameserverIP_RecursiveResolverRefused(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
r := newTestResolver(t)
for _, ip := range []string{"9.9.9.9", "149.112.112.112"} {
var resp *resolver.NameserverResponse
livednstest.Retry(
t,
"QueryNameserverIP("+ip+", google.com)",
func(ctx context.Context) error {
var err error
resp, err = r.QueryNameserverIP(
ctx, ip, ip, "google.com",
)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// A timeout or a network error is no reply at all.
if resp.Status == resolver.StatusTimeout ||
strings.HasPrefix(resp.Error, "network error") {
return fmt.Errorf(
"%w: %s: %s",
livednstest.ErrNoAnswer, ip, resp.Error,
)
}
return nil
},
)
assert.Equal(t, resolver.StatusError, resp.Status, ip)
assert.Equal(t, "server returned REFUSED", resp.Error, ip)
}
}
// googleNameserverIPv4s returns the IPv4 addresses of google.com's
// nameservers. The resolver asks servers only at their IPv4 addresses.
func googleNameserverIPv4s(t *testing.T, r *resolver.Resolver) []string {
t.Helper()
var servers []string
for _, ns := range liveFindAuthoritative(t, r, "google.com") {
for _, ip := range liveResolveIPs(t, r, ns) {
if net.ParseIP(ip).To4() != nil {
servers = append(servers, ip)
}
}
}
return servers
}
// TestQueryServers_EveryServerRefused asks all of google.com's
// nameservers about cloudflare.com, a zone they do not serve, which
// they all refuse. The error says every server refused; it is not
// ErrIntercepted, which only the root servers refusing shows.
func TestQueryServers_EveryServerRefused(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
r := newTestResolver(t)
servers := googleNameserverIPv4s(t, r)
var err error
livednstest.Retry(
t,
"QueryServers(google.com servers, cloudflare.com)",
func(ctx context.Context) error {
_, err = r.QueryServers(
ctx, servers, "google.com.", "cloudflare.com.",
dns.TypeNS,
)
// When not every server refused, one may have given no
// reply at all, so the attempt is tried again.
if err != nil &&
!strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), "every server of") {
return fmt.Errorf(
"%w: %w", livednstest.ErrNoAnswer, err,
)
}
return nil
},
)
require.ErrorIs(t, err, resolver.ErrRefused)
require.NotErrorIs(t, err, resolver.ErrIntercepted)
require.EqualError(
t, err,
"every server of google.com. refused a query for "+
"cloudflare.com.: dns query refused",
)
}
// TestQueryServers_EveryRootServerRefused passes google.com's
// nameservers to QueryServers as the servers of the root zone. They
// refuse a query about cloudflare.com, as root servers would if
// something on the network answered in their place, so the error is
// ErrIntercepted.
func TestQueryServers_EveryRootServerRefused(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
r := newTestResolver(t)
servers := googleNameserverIPv4s(t, r)
var err error
livednstest.Retry(
t,
"QueryServers(google.com servers as root servers, cloudflare.com)",
func(ctx context.Context) error {
_, err = r.QueryServers(
ctx, servers, ".", "cloudflare.com.", dns.TypeNS,
)
// When not every server refused, one may have given no
// reply at all, so the attempt is tried again. Both errors
// for every server refusing say "refused a query for".
if err != nil &&
!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "refused a query for") {
return fmt.Errorf(
"%w: %w", livednstest.ErrNoAnswer, err,
)
}
return nil
},
)
require.ErrorIs(t, err, resolver.ErrIntercepted)
require.EqualError(
t, err,
"every root server refused a query for cloudflare.com.: "+
"this network intercepts DNS queries",
)
}
func TestQueryNameserver_RecordsSorted(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()