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smallwebwaf/internal/reputation/dnsbl.go
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DNS blocklists asked in the background, verdicts kept (closes #104)
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package reputation
import (
"cmp"
"context"
"encoding/hex"
"errors"
"fmt"
"log/slog"
"net"
"net/netip"
"slices"
"strings"
"sync"
"time"
"github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2/simplelru"
"sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/alerts"
)
const (
// maxVerdicts is how many verdicts are kept. Past it, the one fetched
// longest ago is dropped.
maxVerdicts = 100000
// maxQueries is how many queries may be under way at once. Past it, a
// zone is not asked about a client until the client's next request, so
// that a swarm of new addresses cannot fill the memory.
maxQueries = 1000
// failureDelay is how long a zone is not asked again after a query to
// it fails, so that a zone refusing queries is not asked on every
// request.
failureDelay = time.Minute
)
var (
errAsk = errors.New("ask the zone")
errRefused = errors.New("the zone refused the query")
errNotListing = errors.New("the answer is outside 127.0.0.0/8")
)
// Verdict is what a zone said about a client, as reputation.json holds
// it: the zone, the client's address, whether the zone lists it, and when
// the zone answered.
type Verdict struct {
Zone string `json:"zone"`
Client netip.Addr `json:"client"`
Listed bool `json:"listed"`
Fetched time.Time `json:"fetched"`
}
// DNSBLParams are what NewDNSBL needs.
type DNSBLParams struct {
// Zones are the DNSBL zones clients are asked about in
// (SWWAF_DNSBL_ZONES).
Zones []string
// Resolver is the resolver they are asked through
// (SWWAF_DNSBL_RESOLVER), or, while it is the zero AddrPort, the
// host's, as /etc/resolv.conf names it.
Resolver netip.AddrPort
// CacheTTL is how long a verdict is used after it was fetched
// (SWWAF_REPUTATION_CACHE_TTL), and Timeout how long a query may take
// (SWWAF_REPUTATION_TIMEOUT).
CacheTTL time.Duration
Timeout time.Duration
// Now tells the time, normally time.Now in UTC.
Now func() time.Time
// ProcessLog receives each query that fails, and why.
ProcessLog *slog.Logger
// Alerts receive a source_failure alert for each query that fails.
Alerts *alerts.Queue
}
// DNSBL asks the DNSBL zones about clients, in the background, and keeps
// their verdicts. It is safe for concurrent use.
type DNSBL struct {
params DNSBLParams
resolver *net.Resolver
mu sync.Mutex
// verdicts are by query. Each is added as it is fetched and never moved
// up, so that the one fetched longest ago is the first dropped.
verdicts *simplelru.LRU[query, Verdict]
// asking are the queries under way.
asking map[query]bool
// queries and failures count, by zone, the queries made and those that
// failed, and retryAt is when a zone whose last query failed may be
// asked again.
queries map[string]int
failures map[string]int
retryAt map[string]time.Time
}
// query is a client's address, to ask a zone about.
type query struct {
zone string
client netip.Addr
}
// NewDNSBL returns a DNSBL with no verdict yet.
func NewDNSBL(params DNSBLParams) *DNSBL {
verdicts, err := simplelru.NewLRU[query, Verdict](maxVerdicts, nil)
if err != nil {
panic(err) // NewLRU fails only for a size below one
}
resolver := &net.Resolver{}
if params.Resolver.IsValid() {
// Dial is used by Go's own resolver alone.
resolver.PreferGo = true
resolver.Dial = func(ctx context.Context, network, _ string) (net.Conn, error) {
var dialer net.Dialer
return dialer.DialContext(ctx, network, params.Resolver.String())
}
}
return &DNSBL{
params: params,
resolver: resolver,
verdicts: verdicts,
asking: map[query]bool{},
queries: map[string]int{},
failures: map[string]int{},
retryAt: map[string]time.Time{},
}
}
// Zones returns the zones, in the order SWWAF_DNSBL_ZONES names them.
func (d *DNSBL) Zones() []string {
return slices.Clone(d.params.Zones)
}
// ListedBy returns the zones whose verdict on addr, a client's address,
// lists it, in the order SWWAF_DNSBL_ZONES names them. A verdict is used
// until CacheTTL has passed since it was fetched. Each zone without one is
// asked about addr in the background, unless a query about addr to it is
// under way, the zone is left alone after a failure, or maxQueries are
// under way; ListedBy never waits for a query. ctx is the context of the
// client's request, and a query goes on after the request ends.
func (d *DNSBL) ListedBy(ctx context.Context, addr netip.Addr) []string {
d.mu.Lock()
defer d.mu.Unlock()
now := d.params.Now()
var listedBy []string
for _, zone := range d.params.Zones {
q := query{zone: zone, client: addr}
kept, found := d.verdicts.Peek(q)
switch {
case found && now.Sub(kept.Fetched) < d.params.CacheTTL:
if kept.Listed {
listedBy = append(listedBy, zone)
}
case !d.asking[q] && !now.Before(d.retryAt[zone]) && len(d.asking) < maxQueries:
d.asking[q] = true
d.queries[zone]++
go d.ask(context.WithoutCancel(ctx), q)
}
}
return listedBy
}
// Queries returns how many queries were made to zone.
func (d *DNSBL) Queries(zone string) int {
d.mu.Lock()
defer d.mu.Unlock()
return d.queries[zone]
}
// Failures returns how many queries to zone failed.
func (d *DNSBL) Failures(zone string) int {
d.mu.Lock()
defer d.mu.Unlock()
return d.failures[zone]
}
// Snapshot returns every verdict still in use, sorted by client, then by
// zone, as reputation.json lists them.
func (d *DNSBL) Snapshot() []Verdict {
d.mu.Lock()
now := d.params.Now()
verdicts := make([]Verdict, 0, d.verdicts.Len())
for _, kept := range d.verdicts.Values() {
if now.Sub(kept.Fetched) < d.params.CacheTTL {
verdicts = append(verdicts, kept)
}
}
d.mu.Unlock()
slices.SortFunc(verdicts, func(a, b Verdict) int {
return cmp.Or(a.Client.Compare(b.Client), strings.Compare(a.Zone, b.Zone))
})
return verdicts
}
// Load keeps verdicts, read from reputation.json, in place of those it
// keeps. A verdict of a zone SWWAF_DNSBL_ZONES does not name, or one
// fetched CacheTTL ago or more, is dropped, and past maxVerdicts, those
// fetched longest ago.
func (d *DNSBL) Load(verdicts []Verdict) {
verdicts = slices.Clone(verdicts)
slices.SortStableFunc(verdicts, func(a, b Verdict) int {
return a.Fetched.Compare(b.Fetched)
})
d.mu.Lock()
defer d.mu.Unlock()
d.verdicts.Purge()
now := d.params.Now()
for _, kept := range verdicts {
if slices.Contains(d.params.Zones, kept.Zone) &&
now.Sub(kept.Fetched) < d.params.CacheTTL {
d.verdicts.Add(query{zone: kept.Zone, client: kept.Client}, kept)
}
}
}
// ask asks q's zone about q's client, keeps the verdict, and notes the
// query as no longer under way. A query that fails gives no verdict: it
// is counted, logged and raised as a source_failure alert, and the zone is
// not asked again for failureDelay.
func (d *DNSBL) ask(ctx context.Context, q query) {
listed, err := d.lookUp(ctx, q)
now := d.params.Now()
d.mu.Lock()
delete(d.asking, q)
if err == nil {
d.verdicts.Add(q, Verdict{
Zone: q.zone, Client: q.client, Listed: listed, Fetched: now,
})
} else {
d.failures[q.zone]++
d.retryAt[q.zone] = now.Add(failureDelay)
}
d.mu.Unlock()
if err != nil {
const failed = "asking a DNSBL zone failed"
// Raised before it is logged, so that the alert is there once the
// log line is.
d.params.Alerts.Raise(alerts.Alert{
Event: alerts.EventSourceFailure,
Reason: failed,
Detail: map[string]any{"source": q.zone, "error": err.Error()},
})
d.params.ProcessLog.Warn(failed, "zone", q.zone, "error", err.Error())
}
}
// lookUp asks q's zone about q's client through the resolver, and returns
// whether the zone lists it, as readAnswer reads the answer. No such name
// is a client the zone does not list. A query not answered within Timeout
// fails.
func (d *DNSBL) lookUp(ctx context.Context, q query) (bool, error) {
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, d.params.Timeout)
defer cancel()
answer, err := d.resolver.LookupNetIP(ctx, "ip4", queryName(q.zone, q.client))
var dnsErr *net.DNSError
switch {
case err == nil:
return readAnswer(answer)
case errors.As(err, &dnsErr) && dnsErr.IsNotFound:
return false, nil
case errors.As(err, &dnsErr):
// The error names the name asked about, which holds the client's
// address, which is not to be logged: only what went wrong is kept.
return false, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errAsk, dnsErr.Err)
default:
return false, fmt.Errorf("%w: %w", errAsk, err)
}
}
// queryName returns the name a zone is asked about addr by, as RFC 5782
// builds it: the four numbers of an IPv4 address, or the 32 hex digits of
// an IPv6 address, in reverse order, each followed by a dot, then the zone
// and a dot, which makes it a full name, to which the resolver adds no
// search domain of /etc/resolv.conf.
func queryName(zone string, addr netip.Addr) string {
parts := strings.Split(addr.String(), ".")
if addr.Is6() {
parts = strings.Split(hex.EncodeToString(addr.AsSlice()), "")
}
slices.Reverse(parts)
return strings.Join(parts, ".") + "." + zone + "."
}
// readAnswer reads the addresses a zone answered with. An address in
// 127.0.0.0/8 lists the client, as RFC 5782 has zones answer, but one in
// 127.255.255.0/24 is how Spamhaus refuses a query, such as one sent
// through a public resolver or one past its limit, and is a failure. So is
// an address outside 127.0.0.0/8, such as a resolver gives that answers
// even for names that do not exist.
func readAnswer(answer []netip.Addr) (bool, error) {
listing := netip.MustParsePrefix("127.0.0.0/8")
refusal := netip.MustParsePrefix("127.255.255.0/24")
for _, addr := range answer {
switch {
case refusal.Contains(addr):
return false, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errRefused, addr)
case !listing.Contains(addr):
return false, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errNotListing, addr)
}
}
return len(answer) > 0, nil
}