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0.24.0 | Oct 14, 2023 |
0.1.0 | Sep 26, 2023 |
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Overview
Hickory DNS Resolver is a library which implements the DNS resolver using the Hickory DNS Proto library.
This library contains implementations for IPv4 (A) and IPv6 (AAAA) resolution, more features are in the works. It is built on top of the tokio async-io project, this allows it to be integrated into other systems using the tokio and futures libraries. The Hickory DNS project contains other libraries for DNS: a client library for raw protocol usage, a server library for hosting zones, and variations on the TLS implementation over rustls and native-tls.
NOTICE This project was rebranded from Trust-DNS to Hickory DNS and has been moved to the https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns organization and repo, this crate/binary has been moved to hickory-resolver, from 0.24
and onward, for prior versions see trust-dns-resolver.
Features
- Various IPv4 and IPv6 lookup strategies
/etc/resolv.conf
based configuration on Unix/Posix systems- NameServer pools with performance based priority usage
- Caching of query results
- NxDomain/NoData caching (negative caching)
- DNSSEC validation
- Generic Record Type Lookup
- CNAME chain resolution
- DNS over TLS (utilizing
native-tls
,rustls
, andopenssl
;native-tls
orrustls
are recommended) - DNS over HTTPS (currently only supports
rustls
)
Example
use std::net::*;
use hickory_resolver::Resolver;
use hickory_resolver::config::*;
// Construct a new Resolver with default configuration options
let mut resolver = Resolver::new(ResolverConfig::default(), ResolverOpts::default()).unwrap();
// On Unix/Posix systems, this will read the /etc/resolv.conf
// let mut resolver = Resolver::from_system_conf().unwrap();
// Lookup the IP addresses associated with a name.
let mut response = resolver.lookup_ip("www.example.com.").unwrap();
// There can be many addresses associated with the name,
// this can return IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses
let address = response.iter().next().expect("no addresses returned!");
if address.is_ipv4() {
assert_eq!(address, IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::new(93, 184, 215, 14)));
} else {
assert_eq!(address, IpAddr::V6(Ipv6Addr::new(0x2606, 0x2800, 0x21f, 0xcb07, 0x6820, 0x80da, 0xaf6b, 0x8b2c)));
}
DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS
DoT and DoH are supported. This is accomplished through the use of one of native-tls
, openssl
, or rustls
(only rustls
is currently supported for DoH). The Resolver requires valid DoT or DoH resolvers being registered in order to be used.
To use with the Client
, the TlsClientConnection
or HttpsClientConnection
should be used. Similarly, to use with the tokio AsyncClient
the TlsClientStream
or HttpsClientStream
should be used. ClientAuth, mTLS, is currently not supported, there are some issues still being worked on. TLS is useful for Server authentication and connection privacy.
To enable DoT one of the features dns-over-native-tls
, dns-over-openssl
, or dns-over-rustls
must be enabled, dns-over-https-rustls
is used for DoH.
Example
Enable the TLS library through the dependency on hickory-resolver
:
hickory-resolver = { version = "*", features = ["dns-over-rustls"] }
A default TLS configuration is available for Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1
DNS service (Quad9 as well):
// Construct a new Resolver with default configuration options
let mut resolver = Resolver::new(ResolverConfig::cloudflare_tls(), ResolverOpts::default()).unwrap();
/// see example above...
DNSSEC status
Currently the root key is hardcoded into the system. This gives validation of DNSKEY and DS records back to the root. NSEC is implemented, but not NSEC3. Because caching is not yet enabled, it has been noticed that some DNS servers appear to rate limit the connections, validating RRSIG records back to the root can require a significant number of additional queries for those records.
Zones will be automatically resigned on any record updates via dynamic DNS. To enable DNSSEC, one of the features dnssec-openssl
or dnssec-ring
must be enabled.
Testing the resolver via CLI with resolve
Useful for testing hickory-resolver and it's features via an independent CLI.
cargo install --bin resolve hickory-util
example
$ resolve www.example.com.
Querying for www.example.com. A from udp:8.8.8.8:53, tcp:8.8.8.8:53, udp:8.8.4.4:53, tcp:8.8.4.4:53, udp:[2001:4860:4860::8888]:53, tcp:[2001:4860:4860::8888]:53, udp:[2001:4860:4860::8844]:53, tcp:[2001:4860:4860::8844]:53
Success for query name: www.example.com. type: A class: IN
www.example.com. 21063 IN A 93.184.215.14
Minimum Rust Version
The current minimum rustc version for this project is 1.70
Versioning
Hickory DNS does its best job to follow semver. Hickory DNS will be promoted to 1.0 upon stabilization of the publicly exposed APIs. This does not mean that Hickory DNS will necessarily break on upgrades between 0.x updates. Whenever possible, old APIs will be deprecated with notes on what replaced those deprecations. Hickory DNS will make a best effort to never break software which depends on it due to API changes, though this can not be guaranteed. Deprecated interfaces will be maintained for at minimum one major release after that in which they were deprecated (where possible), with the exception of the upgrade to 1.0 where all deprecated interfaces will be planned to be removed.
Dependencies
~6–20MB
~311K SLoC