INTERNET-DRAFT DonaldInternet Engineering Task Force (IETF) D. EastlakeIntended Status: Proposed Standard3rd Request for Comments: 7873 HuaweiMarkCategory: Standards Track M. Andrews ISSN: 2070-1721 ISCExpires: October 4, 2016 April 5,May 2016 Domain Name System (DNS) Cookies<draft-ietf-dnsop-cookies-10.txt>Abstract DNScookiesCookies are a lightweight DNS transaction security mechanism that provides limited protection to DNS servers and clients against a variety of increasingly common denial-of-service andamplification /amplification/ forgery or cache poisoning attacks by off-path attackers. DNS Cookies are tolerant of NAT,NAT-PT,NAT-PT (Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation), and anycast and can be incrementally deployed. (Since DNS Cookies are only returned to the IP address from which they were originally received, they cannot be used to generally track Internet users.) 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Table of Contents 1.Introduction............................................4 1.1Introduction ....................................................4 1.1. Contents of ThisDocument..............................4 1.2 Definitions............................................5Document ..................................4 1.2. Definitions ................................................5 2. ThreatsConsidered......................................6 2.1Considered ..............................................5 2.1. Denial-of-ServiceAttacks..............................6 2.1.1Attacks ..................................6 2.1.1. DNS AmplificationAttacks............................6 2.1.2Attacks ...........................6 2.1.2. DNS ServerDenial-of-Service.........................7 2.2Denial of Service ........................6 2.2. Cache Poisoning and Answer ForgeryAttacks.............7Attacks .................7 3. Comments on Existing DNSSecurity.......................8 3.1Security ...............................7 3.1. Existing DNS DataSecurity.............................8 3.2Security .................................7 3.2. DNS Message/TransactionSecurity.......................8 3.3Security ...........................8 3.3. Conclusions on Existing DNSSecurity...................8Security .......................8 4. DNSCookie Option......................................10 4.1COOKIE Option ...............................................8 4.1. ClientCookie.........................................11 4.2Cookie .............................................10 4.2. ServerCookie.........................................11Cookie .............................................10 5. DNS Cookies ProtocolSpecification.....................12 5.1Specification .............................11 5.1. OriginatingRequests..................................12 5.2a Request .....................................11 5.2. Responding toRequest.................................12 5.2.1a Request ...................................11 5.2.1. NoOptOPT RR or No COOKIEOPT option...................13 5.2.2Option ......................12 5.2.2. Malformed COOKIEOPT option.........................13 5.2.3Option ............................12 5.2.3. Only a ClientCookie................................13 5.2.4Cookie ...............................12 5.2.4. A Client Cookie and an Invalid ServerCookie........14 5.2.5Cookie .......13 5.2.5. A Client Cookie and a Valid ServerCookie...........14 5.3Cookie ..........13 5.3. ProcessingResponses..................................15 5.4 QUERYingResponses ......................................14 5.4. Querying for a ServerCookie..........................15Cookie ..............................14 6. NAT Considerations andAnyCastAnycast ServerConsiderations...17Considerations ...........15 7. Operational and DeploymentConsiderations..............19 7.1Considerations ......................17 7.1. Client and Server SecretRollover.....................19 7.2 Counters..............................................20Rollover .........................17 7.2. Counters ..................................................18 8. IANAConsiderations....................................21Considerations ............................................18 9. SecurityConsiderations................................22 9.1Considerations ........................................19 9.1. Cookie AlgorithmConsiderations.......................23Considerations ...........................20 10. ImplementationConsiderations.........................24Considerations .................................20 11. References ....................................................20 11.1. NormativeReferences......................................25References .....................................20 11.2. InformativeReferences....................................25 Acknowledgements..........................................27 INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies Table of Contents (continued)References ...................................21 AppendixA:A. Example Client CookieAlgorithms..............28 A.1Algorithms ......................23 A.1. A SimpleAlgorithm....................................28 A.2Algorithm ........................................23 A.2. A More ComplexAlgorithm..............................28Algorithm ..................................23 AppendixB:B. Example Server CookieAlgorithms..............29 B.1Algorithms ......................23 B.1. A SimpleAlgorithm....................................29 B.2Algorithm ........................................23 B.2. A More ComplexAlgorithm..............................29 Author's Address..........................................31 INTERNET-DRAFT DNS CookiesAlgorithm ..................................24 Acknowledgments ...................................................25 Authors' Addresses ................................................25 1. Introduction As with many core Internet protocols, the Domain Name System (DNS) was originally designed at a time when the Internet had only a small pool of trusted users. As the Internet has grown exponentially to a global information utility, the DNS has increasingly been subject to abuse. This document describes DNScookies,Cookies, a lightweight DNS transaction security mechanism specified as an OPT [RFC6891] option. The DNScookiesCookie mechanism provides limited protection to DNS servers and clients against a variety of increasingly common abuses by off-path attackers. It is compatiblewithwith, and can be used in conjunctionwithwith, other DNS transaction forgery resistance measures such as those in [RFC5452]. (Since DNS Cookies are only returned to the IP address from which they were originally received, they cannot be used to generally track Internet users.) The protection provided by DNScookiesCookies is similar to that provided by using TCP for DNS transactions.To bypassBypassing the weak protection provided by using TCP requires, among other things, that an off-path attacker guess the 32-bit TCP sequence number in use.To bypassBypassing the weak protection provided by DNS Cookies requires such an attacker to guess a 64-bitpseudo-randompseudorandom "cookie" quantity. Where DNS Cookies are not available but TCP is, falling back to using TCP is reasonable. If only one party to a DNS transaction supports DNScookies,Cookies, the mechanism does not provide a benefit or significantlyinterfere; but,interfere, but if both support it, the additional security provided is automatically available. The DNScookiesCookie mechanism is designed to work in the presence of NAT and NAT-PTboxes(Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation) boxes, and guidance is provided herein on supporting the DNScookiesCookie mechanism in anycast servers.1.11.1. Contents of This Document In Section 2, we discuss the threats against which the DNScookieCookie mechanism provides some protection. Section 3 describes existing DNS security mechanisms and why they are not adequate substitutes for DNScookies.Cookies. Section 4 describes the COOKIEOPToption. Section 5 provides a protocol description. Section 6 discusses some NAT considerations andanycast relatedanycast-related DNS Cookies designINTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookiesconsiderations. Section 7 discusses incremental deployment considerations. Sections 8 and 9 describe IANA considerations andSecurity Considerations. 1.2security considerations, respectively. 1.2. Definitions The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. "Off-path attacker", for a particular DNS client and server, is defined as an attacker who cannot observe the DNS request and response messages between that client and server. "Soft state" indicates information that is learned or derived by a hostwhichand that may be discarded when indicated by the policies of that host but can belaterre-instantiated later if needed. For example, it could be discarded after a period of time or when storage for caching such data becomes full. If operationsrequiringthat require soft state continue afteritthe information has been discarded,itthe information will be automaticallyre-generated,regenerated, albeit at some cost. "Silently discarded" indicates that there are no DNS protocol message consequences. "IP address" is used herein as alength independentlength-independent term and includes both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies2. Threats Considered DNScookiesCookies are intended to provide significant but limited protection against certain attacks by off-pathattackersattackers, as described below. These attacks includedenial-of-service,denial of service, cache poisoning, and answer forgery.2.12.1. Denial-of-Service Attacks The typical form of the denial-of-service attacks considered herein is to send DNS requests with forged source IP addresses to a server. The intent can be to attack that server or some other selectedhosthost, as described below. There are also on-pathdenial of servicedenial-of-service attacks that attempt to saturate a server with DNS requests having correct source addresses. Cookies do not protect against suchattacksattacks, but successful cookie validation improves the probability that the correct source IP address for the requests is known. This facilitates contacting the managers ofor taking other actions forthe networks from which the requestsoriginate. 2.1.1originate or taking other actions for those networks. 2.1.1. DNS Amplification Attacks A request with a forgedIPsource IP address generally causes a response to be sent to that forged IP address.ThusThus, the forging of many such requests with a particular source IP address can result in enough traffic being sent to the forged IP address to interfere with service to the host at the IP address. Furthermore, it is generally easy in the DNS to create short requests that produce much longer responses, thus amplifying the attack. The DNSCookiesCookie mechanism can severely limit the traffic amplification obtained byattackerrequests from an attacker thatareis off the path between the server and the request's source address. Enforced DNScookiesCookies would make it hard for anoff pathoff-path attacker to cause any more than rate-limited short error responses to be sent to a forged IPaddressaddress, so the attack would be attenuated rather than amplified. DNScookiesCookies make it more effective to implement arate limitingrate-limiting scheme for error responses from the server. Such a scheme would further restrict selected host denial-of-service traffic from that server.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies 2.1.22.1.2. DNS ServerDenial-of-ServiceDenial of Service DNS requests that are accepted cause work on the part of DNS servers. This is particularly true for recursive servers that may issue one or more requests and process the responses thereto, in order to determine their response to the initialrequest. Andrequest; the situation can be even worse for recursive servers implementing DNSSEC([RFC4033][RFC4033] [RFC4034][RFC4035])[RFC4035], because they may be induced to perform burdensome cryptographic computations in attempts to verify the authenticity of data they retrieve in trying to answer the request. The computational or communications burden caused by such requests may not depend on a forgedIPsource IP address, but the use of such addresses makes + the source of the requests causing the denial-of-service attack harder to find and + restriction of the IP addresses from which such requests should be honored hard or impossible to specify or verify.UseThe use of DNScookiesCookies should enable a server to reject forged requests from anoff pathoff-path attacker with relative ease and before any recursive queries or public key cryptographic operations are performed.2.22.2. Cache Poisoning and Answer Forgery Attacks The form of the cache poisoning attacks considered is to send forged replies to a resolver. Modern network speeds for well-connected hosts are such that, by forging replies from the IP addresses of a DNS server to a resolver for names that resolver has been induced to resolve or for common names whose resource records have shorttime- to-livetime-to-live values, there can be an unacceptably high probability of randomly coming up with a reply that will be accepted and cause false DNS information to be cached by that resolver (the Dan Kaminsky attack [Kaminsky]). This can be used to facilitate phishing attacks and otherdiversiondiversions of legitimate traffic to a compromised or malicious host such as a web server. With the use of DNScookies,Cookies, a resolver can generally reject such forged replies.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies3. Comments on Existing DNS Security Two forms of security have been added toDNS,DNS: data security and message/transaction security.3.13.1. Existing DNS Data Security DNS data security is one part of DNSSEC and is described in [RFC4033], [RFC4034], [RFC4035], and updates thereto. It provides data origin authentication and authenticated denial of existence. DNSSEC is being deployed and can provide strong protection against forged data and cache poisoning; however, it has the unintended effect of making some denial-of-service attacks worse because of the cryptographic computational load it can require and the increased size in DNS response packets that it tends to produce.3.23.2. DNS Message/Transaction Security The second form of security that has been added to DNS provides "transaction" security through TSIG [RFC2845] or SIG(0) [RFC2931]. TSIG could provide strong protection against the attacks for which the DNSCookiesCookie mechanism provides weaker protection; however, TSIG is non-trivial to deploy in the general Internet because of the burdens it imposes. Among these burdens are pre-agreement and key distribution between client and server, keeping track ofserver sideserver-side key state, and required time synchronization between client and server. TKEY [RFC2930] can solve the problem of key distribution forTSIGTSIG, but some modes of TKEY impose a substantial cryptographic computation load and can be dependent on the deployment of DNS data security (see Section 3.1). SIG(0) [RFC2931] provides lessdenial of servicedenial-of-service protection than TSIG or, in one way, even DNScookies,Cookies, because it authenticates complete transactions but does not authenticaterequests, only complete transactions.requests. In any case, it also depends on the deployment of DNS data security and requires computationally burdensome public key cryptographic operations.3.33.3. Conclusions on Existing DNS Security The existing DNS security mechanisms do not provide the services provided by the DNSCookiesCookie mechanism: lightweight message authentication of DNS requests and responses with no requirement forINTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookiespre-configuration orper client server sideper-client server-side state.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies4. DNSCookieCOOKIE Option The DNSCookie OptionCOOKIE option is an OPT RR [RFC6891] option that can be included in the RDATA portion of an OPT RR in DNS requests and responses. The option lengthvariesvaries, depending on the circumstances in which it is being used. There are twocasescases, as described below. Both use the same OPTION-CODE; they are distinguished by their length. In a request sent by a client to a server when the client does not know the server's cookie, its length is 8, consisting of an8 byte8-byte ClientCookieCookie, as shown in Figure 1. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | OPTION-CODE = 10 | OPTION-LENGTH = 8 | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | | +-+- Client Cookie (fixed size, 8 bytes) -+-+-+-+ | | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Figure1.1: COOKIE Option, Unknown Server Cookie In a request sent by a client when aserver cookieServer Cookie isknownknown, and in allresponses,responses to such a request, the length is variable -- from 16 to 40 bytes, consisting of an8 bytes8-byte Client Cookie followed by thevariable 8variable-length (8 bytes to 32bytesbytes) ServerCookieCookie, as shown in Figure 2. The variability of the option length stems from thevariable lengthvariable-length Server Cookie. The Server Cookie is an integer number ofbytesbytes, with a minimum size of 8 bytes for security and a maximum size of 32 bytes forimplementation convenience.convenience of implementation. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | OPTION-CODE = 10 | OPTION-LENGTH >= 16, <= 40 | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | | +-+- Client Cookie (fixed size, 8 bytes) -+-+-+-+ | | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | | / Server Cookie (variable size, 8 to 32 bytes) / / / +-+-+-+-... Figure2.2: COOKIE Option, Known Server CookieINTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies 4.14.1. Client Cookie The Client Cookie SHOULD be apseudo-randompseudorandom function of theclientClient IPaddress,Address, theserverServer IPaddress,Address, and a secret quantity known only to the client. Thisclient secretClient Secret SHOULD have at least 64 bits of entropy [RFC4086] and be changed periodically (see Section 7.1). The selection of thepseudo-randompseudorandom function is a matter private to theclientclient, as only the client needs to recognize its own DNScookies.Cookies. TheclientClient IPaddressAddress is included so that the Client Cookie cannot be used(1)to (1) track a client if theclientClient IPaddressAddress changes due to privacy mechanisms or (2)toimpersonate the client by some network device that was formerly on path but is no longer on path when theclientClient IPaddressAddress changes due to mobility. However, if theclientClient IPaddressAddress is being changed very often, it may be necessary to fix the Client Cookie for a particular server for severalrequestsrequests, to avoid undue inefficiency due to retries caused by that server not recognizing the Client Cookie. For further discussion of the Client Cookie field, see Section 5.1. For example methods of determining a Client Cookie, see Appendix A. In order to provide minimal authentication, a client MUST send Client Cookies that will usually be different for any two servers at different IP addresses.4.24.2. Server Cookie The Server Cookie SHOULD consist of or include a 64-bit or largerpseudo-randompseudorandom function of the request source (client) IP address, a secret quantity known only to the server, and the request Client Cookie. (See Section 6 for a discussion of why the Client Cookie is used as input to the Server Cookie but the Server Cookie is not used as an input to the Client Cookie.) Thisserver secretServer Secret SHOULD have at least 64 bits of entropy [RFC4086] and be changed periodically (see Section 7.1). The selection of thepseudo-randompseudorandom function is a matter private to theserverserver, as only the server needs to recognize its own DNScookies.Cookies. For further discussion of the Server Cookiefieldfield, see Section 5.2. For example methods of determining a Server Cookie, see Appendix B. When implemented as recommended, the server need not maintain anycookie related per clientcookie-related per-client state. In order to provide minimal authentication, a server MUST send Server Cookies that will usually be different for clients at any two different IP addresses or with different Client Cookies.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies5. DNS Cookies Protocol Specification This section discusses using DNS Cookies in the DNSProtocol.protocol. The cycle of originating a request, responding to that request, and processingthe response areresponses is covered in Sections 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3. A de facto extension to QUERY to allowpre-fetchingthe prefetching of a Server Cookie is specified in Section 5.4. Rollover of theclientClient Secrets andserver secretsServer Secrets, and transient retention of the old cookie orsecret issecret, are covered in Section 7.1. DNS clients and servers SHOULD implement DNScookiesCookies to decrease their vulnerability to the threats discussed in Section 2.5.15.1. OriginatingRequestsa Request A DNS client that implements DNS Cookies includes one DNS COOKIEOPToption containing a Client Cookie in every DNS request itsendssends, unless DNScookiesCookies are disabled. If the client has a cached Server Cookie for the server against its IPaddressaddress, it uses the longer cookie form and includes that Server Cookie in the option along with the Client Cookie (Figure 2).OtherwiseOtherwise, it just sends theshorter formshorter-form option with a Client Cookie (Figure 1).5.25.2. Responding to a Request The Server Cookie, when it occurs in a COOKIEOPToption in a request, is intended to weakly assure the server that the request came from a client that is both at the source IP address of the request and using the Client Cookie included in the option. This assurance is provided by the Server Cookie that server sent to that client in an earlier response appearing as the Server Cookie field in the request. At a server where DNS Cookies are not implemented and enabled, the presence of a COOKIEOPToption is ignored and the server responds as if no COOKIEOPToption had been included in the request. When DNS Cookies are implemented and enabled, there are five possibilities: (1)thereThere is no OPT RR at all in therequestrequest, or there isaan OPT RR but the COOKIEOPToption is absent from the OPTRR;RR. (2)aA COOKIEOPToption is present but is not a legal length or is otherwisemalformed;malformed. (3)thereThere is a COOKIE option of valid lengthcookie optionin the request with no ServerCookie;Cookie. (4)thereThere is a COOKIE option of valid lengthCOOKIE OPTin the request with a ServerCookieCookie, but that Server Cookie isinvalid; or INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookiesinvalid. (5)thereThere is a COOKIE option of valid lengthCOOKIE OPTin the request with a correct Server Cookie.TheThese five possibilities are discussed in the subsections below. In all cases of multiple COOKIEOPToptions in a request, only the first (the one closest to the DNS header) is considered. All others are ignored.5.2.15.2.1. NoOptOPT RR or No COOKIEOPT optionOption If there is no OPT record or no COOKIEOPToption present in therequestrequest, then the server responds to the request as if the server doesn't implement the COOKIEOPT. 5.2.2option. 5.2.2. Malformed COOKIEOPT optionOption If the COOKIEOPToption is too short to contain a ClientCookieCookie, then FORMERR is generated. If the COOKIEOPToption is longer than that required to hold a COOKIEOPToption with just a Client Cookie (8 bytes) but is shorterthatthan the minimum COOKIEOPToption with both a Client Cookie and a Server Cookie (16bytes)bytes), then FORMERR is generated. If the COOKIEOPToption is longer than the maximum valid COOKIEOPToption (40bytes)bytes), thenaFORMERR is generated. In summary, valid cookie lengths are 8 and 16 to 40 inclusive.5.2.35.2.3. Only a Client Cookie Based on server policy, including rate limiting, the server chooses one of the following: (1) Silently discard the request. (2) Send a BADCOOKIE error response. (3) Process the request and provide a normal response. The RCODE isNOERRORNOERROR, unless some non-cookie error occurs in processing the request. If the serverresponds,responds choosing2(2) or3(3) above, it SHALL generate its own COOKIEOPToption containing both the Client Cookie copied from the request and a Server Cookie it hasgeneratedgenerated, andaddsit will add this COOKIEOPToption to the response's OPT record. Servers MUST, at least occasionally,INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookiesrespond to such requests to inform the client of the correct Server Cookie. This is necessary so that such a client can bootstrap to the more secure state where requests and responses have recognized Server Cookies and Client Cookies. A server is not expected to maintainper clientper-client state to achieve this. For example, it could respond to every Nth request across all clients. If the request was received over TCP, the server SHOULD take the authentication provided by the use of TCP into account and SHOULD choose3.(3). In this case, if the server is not willing to accept the security provided by TCP as a substitute for the security provided by DNS Cookies but instead chooses2,(2), there is some danger of an indefinite loop of retries (see Section 5.3).5.2.45.2.4. A Client Cookie and an Invalid Server Cookie The server examines the Server Cookie to determine if it is a valid Server Cookie that ithas generated.had generated previously. This determination normally involvesre-calculatingrecalculating the Server Cookie (or thehashHash part thereof) based on theserver secretServer Secret (or the previousserver secretServer Secret, if it has justchanged),changed); the received ClientCookie,Cookie; theclientClient IPaddress, and possiblyAddress; and, possibly, otherfields -- seefields. See Appendix B.2 for an example. If the cookie is invalid, itcancould be becauseof a stale Server Cookie, or+ it is too old + a client's IP address or Client Cookiechanging withoutchanged, and the DNS serverbeing aware, oris not aware of the change + an anycastserverclusterthatof servers is not consistently configured, or + an attempt to spoof theclient.client has occurred The server SHALL process the request as if the invalid Server Cookie was notpresentpresent, as described in Section 5.2.3.5.2.55.2.5. A Client Cookie and a Valid Server Cookie When a valid Server Cookie is present in therequestrequest, the server can assume that the request is from a client that it has talked to before and defensive measures for spoofed UDP requests, if any, are no longer required. The server SHALL process the request and include a COOKIEOPToption in the response by (a) copying the complete COOKIEOPToption from the request or (b) generating a new COOKIEOPToption containing both the Client Cookie copied from the request and a valid Server Cookie it has generated.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies 5.35.3. Processing Responses The Client Cookie, when it occurs in a COOKIEOPToption in a DNS reply, is intended to weakly assure the client that the reply came from a server at the source IP address used in the responsepacketpacket, because the Client Cookie value is the value that client would send to that server in a request. In a DNS reply with multiple COOKIEOPToptions, all but the first (the one closest to the DNSHeader)header) are ignored. A DNS client where DNScookiesCookies are implemented and enabled examines the response for DNScookiesCookies and MUST discard the response if it contains an illegal COOKIEOPToption length or an incorrect Client Cookie value. If the client is expecting the response to contain a COOKIEOPToption and it ismissingmissing, the response MUST be discarded. If the COOKIEOPToption Client Cookie is correct, the client caches the Server Cookieprovidedprovided, even if the response is an error response (RCODE non-zero). If thereplyextended RCODE in the reply is BADCOOKIE and the Client Cookie in the reply matches what was sent, it means that the server was unwilling to process the request because it did not have the correct Server Cookie in it. The client SHOULD retry the request using the new Server Cookie from the response. Repeated BADCOOKIE responses to requests that use the Server Cookie provided in the previous response may be an indication that either the shared secrets/ secret generationor the method for generating secrets in an anycast cluster of serversareis inconsistent. If the reply to a retried request with a fresh Server Cookie is BADCOOKIE, the client SHOULD retry using TCP as thetransporttransport, since the server will likely process the request normally based on the security provided by TCP (see Section 5.2.3). If the RCODE is some value other than BADCOOKIE, including zero, the further processing of the response proceeds normally.5.4 QUERYing5.4. Querying for a Server Cookie In manycasescases, a client will learn the Server Cookie for a server as theside effect"side effect" of another transaction; however, there may be times when this is not desirable.ThereforeTherefore, a means is provided for obtaining a Server Cookie through an extension to the QUERY opcode for which opcode most existing implementations require that QDCOUNT be one (1) (see Section 4.1.2 of [RFC1035]). For servers with DNS Cookies enabled, the QUERY opcode behavior is extended to support queries with an emptyquestion section (QDCOUNT zero)Question Section (a QDCOUNT of zero (0)), provided that an OPT record is present with a COOKIE option. Such servers will send a replywiththat has an emptyanswer sectionAnswer Section and has a COOKIEINTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookiesoptiongivingcontaining the Client Cookieprovided in the queryand a valid Server Cookie. If such a query provided just a Client Cookie and no Server Cookie, the response SHALL have the RCODE NOERROR. This mechanism can also be used to confirm/re-establish an existing Server Cookie by sending a cached Server Cookie with the Client Cookie. In thiscasecase, the response SHALL have the RCODE BADCOOKIE if the Server Cookie sent with the query was invalid and the RCODE NOERROR if it was valid. Serverswhichthat don't support the COOKIE option will normally send FORMERR in response to such a query, though REFUSED, NOTIMP, and NOERROR without a COOKIE option are also possible in such responses.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies6. NAT Considerations andAnyCastAnycast Server Considerations In theClassicclassic Internet, DNS Cookies could simply be apseudo-randompseudorandom function of theclientClient IPaddressAddress and aserver secretServer Secret or theserverServer IPaddressAddress and aclient secret.Client Secret. You would want to compute the Server Cookie that way, so a client could cache its Server Cookie for a particular server for an indefinite amount of time and the server could easily regenerate and check it. You could consider the Client Cookie to be a weak client signature over theserverServer IPaddressAddress that the client checks inrepliesreplies, and you could extend this signature to cover the request ID, for example, or any other information that is returned unchanged in the reply. But we have this reality calledNAT [RFC3022], Network Address Translation"NAT" [RFC3022] (including, for the purposes of this document, NAT-PT,Network Address and Protocol Translation,which has been declared Historic [RFC4966]). There is no problem with DNS transactions between clients and servers behind a NAT box using local IP addresses. Nor is there a problem with NAT translation of internal addresses to external addresses or translations between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, as long as the address mapping is relatively stable. Should the external IP address to which an internal client is being mappedtochange occasionally, the disruption is little more than when a clientrolls-overrolls over itsDNSCOOKIE secret.And normallyAlso, external access to a DNS server behind a NAT box is normally handled by a fixed mappingwhichthat forwards externally received DNS requests to a specific host. However, NAT devices sometimes also map ports. This can cause multiple DNS requests and responses from multiple internal hosts to be mapped to a smaller number of external IP addresses, such as one address.ThusThus, there could be many clients behind a NAT box that appear to come from the same source IP address to a server outside that NAT box. If one of these were an attacker (thinkZombie"zombie" orBotnet),"botnet") behind a NAT box, thatbehind-NATattacker could get the Server Cookie for some server for the outgoing IP address by just making some random request to that server. It could then include that Server Cookie in the COOKIEOPToption of requests to the server with the forged local IP address of some other host and/or client behind the NAT box.(Attacker(An attacker's possession of this Server Cookie will not help in forging responses to cause cachepoisoningpoisoning, as such responses are protected by the required Client Cookie.) To fix this potential defect, it is necessary to distinguish different clients behind a NAT box from the point of view of the server.ItThis isfor this reason thatwhy the Server Cookie is specified as apseudo-randompseudorandom function of both the request source IP address and the Client Cookie. From this inclusion of the Client Cookie in the calculation of the Server Cookie, it followsthat a stable Client Cookie,that, for any particular server, a stable Client Cookie is needed. If, for example, the request ID was included in the calculation of the Client Cookie, itINTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookieswould normally change with each request to a particular server. This would mean that each request would have to be sent twice:firstfirst, to learn the new Server Cookie based on this new Client Cookie based on the newIDID, and then again using this new Client Cookie to actually get an answer.ThusThus, the input to the Client Cookie computation must be limited to theserverServer IPaddressAddress and one or more things that changeslowlyslowly, such as theclient secret.Client Secret. In principle, there could be a similar problem for servers, not due to NAT but due to mechanisms like anycastwhichthat may cause requests to a DNS server at an IP address to be delivered to any one of several machines. (External requests to a DNS server behind a NAT box usually occur via port forwarding such that all such requests go to one host.) However, it is impossible to solve this in the way that the similar problem was solved for NATed clients; if the Server Cookie was included in the calculation of the Client Cookie in the same way that the Client Cookie is included in the Server Cookie, you would just get an almost infinite series of errors as a request was repeatedly retried. For servers accessed viaanycastanycast, to successfully support DNSCOOKIES,Cookies, either (1) the server clones musteitherall use the sameserver secretServer Secret or (2) the mechanism that distributes requests tothemthe server clones must cause the requests from a particular client to go to a particular server for a sufficiently long period of time that extra requests due to changes in ServerCookieCookies resulting from accessing different server machines are not unduly burdensome. (When such anycast-accessed servers act as recursive servers or otherwise act asclientsclients, they normally use a different unique address to source theirrequestsrequests, to avoid confusion in the delivery of responses.) For simplicity, it is RECOMMENDED that the sameserver secretServer Secret be used by each DNS server in a set of anycast servers. If there is limited time skew in updating this secret in different anycast servers, this can be handled by a server accepting requests containing a Server Cookie based on either its old or new secret for the maximum likely time period of such time skew (see also Section 7.1).INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies7. Operational and Deployment Considerations The DNScookiesCookie mechanism is designed for incremental deployment and to complement the orthogonal techniques in [RFC5452]. Either or both techniques can be deployed independently at each DNS server and client.ThusThus, installation at the client and server end need not be synchronized. In particular, a DNS server or client that implements the DNSCOOKIECookie mechanism can interoperate successfully with a DNS client or server that does not implement thismechanismmechanism, although, of course, in this case it will not get the benefit of the mechanism and the server involved might choose to severelyrate limitrate-limit responses. When such a server or client interoperates with a client or serverwhichthat also implements the DNScookiesCookie mechanism,theythese servers and clients get the security benefits of the DNSCookiesCookie mechanism.7.17.1. Client and Server Secret Rollover The longer a secret is used, the higher the probability that it has been compromised.ThusThus, clients and servers are configured with a lifetime setting for theirsecretsecret, androlloverthey roll over to a new secret when that lifetimeexpiresexpires, or earlier due to deliberate jitter as described below. The default lifetime is onedayday, and the maximum permitted is one month. To be precise and to make it practical to stay within limits despite long holidayweekends andweekends, daylightsavingssaving timeshiftsshifts, and the like, clients and servers MUST NOT continue to use the same secret in new requests and responses for more than 36 days and SHOULD NOT continue to do so for more than 26 hours. Many clients rolling over their secret at the same time could briefly increase servertraffictraffic, and exactly predictable rollover times for clients or servers might facilitate guessing attacks. For example, an attacker might increase the priority of attacking secrets they believe will be in effect for an extended period of time. To avoid rollover synchronization and predictability, it is RECOMMENDED that pseudorandom jitter in the range of plus zero to minus at least 40% be applied to the time until a scheduled rollover of aDNS cookieCOOKIE secret. It is RECOMMENDED that a client keep the Client Cookie it is expecting in a reply until there is no longer an outstanding request associated with that Client Cookie that the client is tracking. This avoids rejection of replies due to a bad Client Cookie right after a change in theclient secret.Client Secret. It is RECOMMENDED that a server retain its previous secret after a rollover to a new secret for a configurable period of time not lessINTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookiesthan 1 second or more than5 minutes300 seconds, with a default configuration of2 1/2 minutes.150 seconds. Requests with Server Cookies based on its previous secret are treated as a correct Server Cookie during that time. When a server responds to a request containingaan old Server Cookie that the server is treating as correct, the server MUST include a new Server Cookie in its response.7.27.2. Counters It is RECOMMENDED that implementations include counters of the occurrences of the various types of requests and responses described in Section 5.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies8. IANA Considerations IANA has assigned the followingOPTDNS EDNS0 optionvalue:code: Value Name Status Reference -------- ------ -------- --------------- 10 COOKIE Standard[this document]RFC 7873 IANA has assigned the following DNS error code as an earlyallocation:allocation per [RFC7120]: RCODE Name Description Reference -------- --------- ------------------------- --------------- 23 BADCOOKIE Bad/missingserver cookie [this document] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS CookiesServer Cookie RFC 7873 9. Security Considerations DNS Cookies provide a weak form of authentication of DNS requests and responses. In particular, they provide no protection against"on- path""on-path" adversaries; that is, they provide no protection against any adversary that can observe theplain textplaintext DNS traffic, such as anon- pathon-path router, bridge, or any device on an on-path shared link (unless the DNS traffic in question on that path is encrypted). For example, if a host is connected via an unsecured IEEEStdStd. 802.11 link (Wi-Fi), any device in the vicinity that could receive and decode the 802.11 transmissions must be considered"on-path"."on path". On the other hand, in a similar situation but one where 802.11 Robust Security(WPA2)(WPA2, also called "Wi-Fi Protected Access 2") is appropriately deployed on the Wi-Fi network nodes, only the Access Point via which the host is connecting is"on-path""on path" as far as the 802.11 link is concerned. Despite these limitations, deployment of DNS Cookies on the global Internet is expected to provide a significant reduction in the available launch points for the traffic amplification anddenial ofdenial-of- service forgery attacks described in Section 2 above. Work is underway in the IETF DPRIVE working group to provide confidentiality for DNS requests and responseswhichthat would be compatible with DNScookies.Cookies. Should stronger message/transaction security be desired, it is suggested that TSIG or SIG(0) security be used (see Section 3.2); however, it may be useful to use DNS Cookies in conjunction with these features. In particular, DNS Cookies could screen out many DNS messages before the cryptographic computations of TSIG or SIG(0) arerequired and,required, and if SIG(0) is in use, DNS Cookies could usefully screen out many requests given that SIG(0) does not screen requests but only authenticates the response of complete transactions. An attacker that does not know the Server Cookie could do a variety of things, such as omitting the COOKIEOPToption or sending a random Server Cookie. In general, DNS servers need to take other measures, includingrate limitingrate-limiting responses, to protect from abuse in such cases. See further information in Section 5.2. When a server or client starts receiving an increased level of requests with badserver cookiesServer Cookies or replies with badclient cookies,Client Cookies, it would be reasonable for it to believe that it is likely underattackattack, and it should consider a more frequent rollover of its secret. More rapid rollover decreases the benefit to acookie guessingcookie-guessing attacker if they succeed in guessing a cookie.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies 9.19.1. Cookie Algorithm Considerations The cookie computation algorithm for use in DNS Cookies SHOULD be based on apseudo-randompseudorandom function at least as strong as 64-bit FNV(Fowler-Noll-Vo [FNV])(Fowler/Noll/Vo [FNV]), because an excessively weak or trivial algorithm could enable adversaries to guess cookies. However, in light of the lightweightplain-textplaintext token security provided by DNS Cookies, a strong cryptography hash algorithm may not be warranted in manycases,cases and would cause an increased computational burden.NeverthelessNevertheless, there is nothing wrong with using somethingstronger,stronger -- for example,HMAC-SHA256HMAC-SHA-256 [RFC6234] truncated to 64 bits, assuming that a DNS processor has adequate computational resources available. DNSprocessorsimplementations or applications thatfeel theneedforsomewhat stronger security without a significant increase in computational load should consider more frequent changes in their client and/orserver secret;Server Secret; however, this does require more frequent generation of a cryptographically strong random number [RFC4086]. See Appendices A and B for specific examples of cookie computation algorithms.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies10. Implementation Considerations The DNSCookie OptionCOOKIE option specified herein is implemented in BIND 9.10 using an experimental option code.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS CookiesBIND 9.10.3 (and later) use the allocated option code. 11. References 11.1. Normative References [RFC1035]-Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, DOI 10.17487/RFC1035, November 1987, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1035>. [RFC2119]-Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>. [RFC4086]-Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker, "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086, DOI 10.17487/RFC4086, June 2005,<http://www.rfc- editor.org/info/rfc4086>.<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4086>. [RFC6891]-Damas, J., Graff, M., and P. Vixie, "Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0))", STD 75, RFC6891,6891, DOI 10.17487/RFC6891, April 2013, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6891>. [RFC7120] Cotton, M., "Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points", BCP 100, RFC 7120, DOI10.17487/RFC6891, April 2013, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6891>.10.17487/RFC7120, January 2014, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7120>. 11.2. Informative References [FNV]- G.Fowler,L. C.G., Noll,K.-P.L., Vo, K., and D.Eastlake,Eastlake 3rd, "The FNVNon- CryptographicNon-Cryptographic Hash Algorithm",draft-eastlake-fnv, workWork inprogress.Progress, draft-eastlake-fnv-10, October 2015. [Kaminsky]-Olney, M.,P.Mullen, P., and K.Miklavicic,Miklavcic, "Dan Kaminsky's 2008 DNS Vulnerability",25July 2008,<https://www.ietf.org/mail- archive/web/dnsop/current/pdf2jgx6rzxN4.pdf>.<https://www.ietf.org/ mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/pdf2jgx6rzxN4.pdf>. [RFC2845]-Vixie, P., Gudmundsson, O., Eastlake 3rd, D., and B. Wellington, "Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)", RFC 2845, DOI 10.17487/RFC2845, May 2000, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2845>. [RFC2930]-Eastlake 3rd, D., "Secret Key Establishment for DNS (TKEY RR)", RFC 2930, DOI 10.17487/RFC2930, September 2000, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2930>. [RFC2931]-Eastlake 3rd, D., "DNS Request and Transaction Signatures ( SIG(0)s )", RFC 2931, DOI 10.17487/RFC2931, September 2000, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2931>. [RFC3022]-Srisuresh, P. and K. Egevang, "Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT)", RFC 3022, DOI 10.17487/RFC3022, January 2001,<http://www.rfc- editor.org/info/rfc3022>. INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3022>. [RFC4033]-Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. Rose, "DNS Security Introduction and Requirements", RFC 4033, DOI 10.17487/RFC4033, March 2005,<http://www.rfc- editor.org/info/rfc4033>.<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4033>. [RFC4034]-Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. Rose, "Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions", RFC 4034, DOI 10.17487/RFC4034, March 2005,<http://www.rfc- editor.org/info/rfc4034>.<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4034>. [RFC4035]-Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. Rose, "Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions", RFC 4035, DOI 10.17487/RFC4035, March 2005,<http://www.rfc- editor.org/info/rfc4035>.<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4035>. [RFC4966]-Aoun, C. and E. Davies, "Reasons to Move the Network Address Translator - Protocol Translator (NAT-PT) to Historic Status", RFC 4966, DOI 10.17487/RFC4966, July 2007, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4966>. [RFC5452]-Hubert, A. and R. van Mook, "Measures for Making DNS More Resilient against Forged Answers", RFC 5452, DOI 10.17487/RFC5452, January 2009,<http://www.rfc- editor.org/info/rfc5452>.<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5452>. [RFC6234]-Eastlake 3rd, D. and T. Hansen, "US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF)", RFC 6234, DOI 10.17487/RFC6234, May 2011,<http://www.rfc- editor.org/info/rfc6234>. INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies Acknowledgements The suggestions and contributions of the following are gratefully acknowledged: Alissa Cooper, Bob Harold, Paul Hoffman, David Malone, Yoav Nir, Gayle Noble, Dan Romascanu, Tim Wicinski, Peter Yee The document was prepared in raw nroff. All macros used were defined within the source file. INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6234>. AppendixA:A. Example Client Cookie AlgorithmsA.1A.1. A Simple Algorithm A simple example method to compute Client Cookies is theFNV-64FNV64 [FNV] of theclientClient IPaddress,Address, theserverServer IPaddress,Address, and theclient secret. That isClient Secret: Client Cookie =FNV-64(FNV64( Client IP Address | Server IP Address | Client Secret ) where "|" indicates concatenation. Some computational resources may be saved byprecomputing FNV-64pre-computing FNV64 through the Client IP Address. (If the order of the items concatenated above is changed to put the Server IP Address last, it might be possible to further reduce the computational effort by pre-computingFNV-64FNV64 through the bytes of both the Client IP Address and the ClientSecretSecret, but this would reduce the strength of the Client Cookie and is NOT RECOMMENDED.)A.2A.2. A More Complex Algorithm A more complex algorithm to calculate Client Cookies is given below. It uses more computational resources than the simpler algorithm shown in Appendix A.1. Client Cookie = HMAC-SHA256-64( Client IP Address | Server IP Address, Client Secret )INTERNET-DRAFT DNS CookiesAppendixB:B. Example Server Cookie AlgorithmsB.1B.1. A Simple Algorithm An example of a simple method producing a 64-bit Server Cookie is theFNV-64FNV64 [FNV] of the request IP address, the Client Cookie, and theserver secret.Server Secret. Server Cookie =FNV-64(FNV64( Client IP Address | Client Cookie | Server Secret ) where "|" represents concatenation. (If the order of the items concatenated was changed, it might be possible to reduce the computational effort by pre-computingFNV-64FNV64 through the bytes of theSeverServer Secret and ClientCookieCookie, but this would reduce the strength of the Server Cookie and is NOT RECOMMENDED.)B.2B.2. A More Complex Algorithm Since the Server Cookie has a variable size, the server can store various information in that field as long as it is hard for an adversary to guess the entire quantity used for authentication. There should be 64 bits of entropy in the Server Cookie; forexampleexample, it could have a sub-field of64-bits64 bits computedpseudo-randomlypseudorandomly with theserver secretServer Secret as one of the inputs to thepseudo-randompseudorandom function. Types of additional information that could be stored include atime stamptimestamp and/or a nonce. The example below is one variationforof the Server Cookie that has been implemented in BIND 9.10.3 (and later)releasesreleases, where the Server Cookie is 128bitsbits, composed as follows: Sub-field Size --------- --------- Nonce 32 bits Time 32 bits Hash 64 bits With this algorithm, the server sends a new 128-bit cookie back with every request. The Nonce field assures a low probability that there would be a duplicate. The Time field gives the server time and makes it easy to reject old cookies. The Hash part of the Server Cookie is thehard-to-guess part.part that is hard to guess. In BINDINTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies9.10.3 (and later), its computation can be configured to use AES,HMAC-SHA1,HMAC-SHA-1, or, as shown below,HMAC-SHA256:HMAC-SHA-256: hash = HMAC-SHA256-64( Server Secret, (Client Cookie |nonceNonce |timeTime | Client IP Address) ) where "|" represents concatenation.INTERNET-DRAFT DNS Cookies Author's AddressAcknowledgments The suggestions and contributions of the following are gratefully acknowledged: Alissa Cooper, Bob Harold, Paul Hoffman, David Malone, Yoav Nir, Gayle Noble, Dan Romascanu, Tim Wicinski, and Peter Yee Authors' Addresses Donald E. Eastlake 3rd Huawei Technologies 155 Beaver Street Milford, MA 01757USA Telephone:United States Phone: +1-508-333-2270EMail:Email: d3e3e3@gmail.com Mark Andrews Internet Systems Consortium 950 Charter Street Redwood City, CA 94063USAUnited States Email: marka@isc.orgCopyright, Disclaimer, and Additional IPR Provisions Copyright (c) 2016 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. 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