A question waits on GeoJS at most 800ms, the new default of
SWWAF_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT. In enforce mode it does not wait at all when it is
over the header limits, on a fetched blocklist with deny, on the CrowdSec
decision list, or over a whole rate limit. Not waiting never lowers a
client's limit. Just before the Core Rule Set, servewaf refuses more than
50 cookies or 100 header fields with 431.
Shared default changed: SWWAF_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT also applies to smallwebwaf
with no command.
Judgement call: SWWAF_REPUTATION_TIMEOUT stays 2s, since no request waits
on the DNS blocklists or AbuseIPDB.
Model: opus-5-5
The IPv6 group that is one client, the size of the table of clients and
the level of the process's own lines become settings. clientGroup reads
the group length from them, so limits, bans, history, lookups, AbuseIPDB
scores and per-client anomaly counters all follow it; ratelimit.New
takes the table size; the process logger takes the level once the
settings are read, and request lines, written apart from it, are never
held back.
Judgement call: SWWAF_IPV6_GROUP_PREFIX accepts 32 to 128, the issue's example range.
Model: opus-5-5
SWWAF_ASN_LIMIT_PERCENT and SWWAF_COUNTRY_LIMIT_PERCENT give the clients
of the AS numbers and countries they list that percentage of every rate
and byte limit, rounded down; SWWAF_ASN_BYTES_PERCENT and
SWWAF_COUNTRY_BYTES_PERCENT take its place for the byte limits of those
they list; SWWAF_UNKNOWN_LIMIT_PERCENT (100) covers clients without a
country. The lowest applies. While one lowers a limit, a request waits
for its client's lookup, and SWWAF_LOOKUP_SOURCE=off stops the start. Log
lines give limit_percent and bytes_percent with their settings; ban
notes, and so alerts, give the broken limit's.
Judgement call: a client without a country is unknown, whatever its AS number.
Judgement call: bytes_percent and its setting are log fields SPEC does not name.
Rule suppressed: funlen on FromEnvironment, one line per setting.
Model: opus-5-5
SWWAF_LOOKUP_SOURCE=file looks every client up in the file
SWWAF_LOOKUP_DB_PATH names, without GeoJS. file without the path, the
path with another source, or a file that cannot be read stops the start.
The file is read whole into memory, so overwriting it in place cannot
disturb a lookup, and read again 2 seconds after its last change; a
replacement that cannot be read is logged, counted and sent as a
file_error alert, and the old one stays in use. Metrics give when it
was read and the failed reads. Tests write their databases through
internal/lookup/lookuptest.
Deviation: go.mod and go.sum written by hand; go runs only through make.
Judgement call: the 2-second wait, as the rule files have.
Model: opus-5-5
GeoJS's geo.json is asked about every new visitor unless
SWWAF_LOOKUP_SOURCE is off. A request waits for its client's first
answer only while a country list or SWWAF_ADD_LOOKUP_HEADERS needs it;
otherwise the answer reaches the client's history and ban notes when it
comes. The AS number and name go beside the country in the request log,
history, ban notes, alerts and lookups.json, with metrics by AS number;
64512 counts as unknown. A client's own X-Client-ASN and
X-Client-Country never reach the app, whatever the setting says, and
make example-app sends no address to GeoJS.
Judgement call: AS numbers are written AS64496, as SPEC's settings write them.
Judgement call: SWWAF_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT is added, default 1s, and cannot be off.
Model: opus-5-5
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