[Dnsmasq-discuss] Partial denial of service with dnsmasq on resource constrained systems
Simon Kelley
simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Fri Apr 9 17:24:47 UTC 2021
On 05/04/2021 16:16, Gordon Shawn wrote:
> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 22:11:17 -0400
> From: "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy at alum.wpi.edu
> <mailto:neal.p.murphy at alum.wpi.edu>>
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> Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Partial denial of service with dnsmasq
> on resource constrained systems
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> On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 23:55:08 +0100
> Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk
> <mailto:simon at thekelleys.org.uk>> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > One other thing I saw while testing with large blocklists was a
> noticeable
> > > latency increase, likely related to lookup times. I recall some
> discussion
> > > on the ML where you mentioned work on a hash/tree solution was in
> > > progress. Were those changes completed?
> > >
> >
> >
> > This seems to be the crucial aspect here: large blocklists. Is we move
> > the large blocklists to a subsystem designed to handle them, then the
> > problem goes away.
> >
> > I could do with a handle on exactly how people are configuring dnsmasq
> > to do ad blocking. It's not something I have much experience of.
>
> On Smoothwall Express, I've conf'ed dnsmasq to 'undefine' a large
> number of FQDNs using the form 'local=/8teenporno.com/
> <http://8teenporno.com/>' I pull the Shalla data and use the ads,
> pron, warez, and a few other categories.
>
> 768 000 FQDNs makes dnsmasq use around 100MiB of RAM. On an Atom
> N270 running SWE, response time is generally in the range of 75 ms
> to 100 ms when there's no traffic. With the DL saturated (using
> speedtest.net <http://speedtest.net>), response times range from
> 500ms to 2s. Saturated UL doesn't seem to affect response time much.
>
> I've been satisfied with its operation; I see almost no ads and
> pretty much nothing in the other categories I use.
>
> N
>
> This is still about 130 bytes per FQDN, sounds like a lot for the RAM usage.
>
> The key issue to me with large lists, is that addn-hosts etc can be
> reloaded by SIGHUP and dnsmasq can be restarted very quickly which is
> fine, however when you have large conf files with many --local or
> --address lines, a full dnsmasq restart is required and it can take
> seconds or minutes which is very bad when you need update the blocklists.
>
> It will be nice for local/address/cname lines be parsed just like the
> addn-host files, i.e. with a SIGHUP they can be quickly parsed and used
> instead of being part of the full blown dnsmasq.conf for a time
> consuming parsing.
>
If the time spent in (re)starting dnsmasq is almost all taken in parsing
enormous blocklists, then adding the ability to re-read the blocklists
without re-starting dnsmasq isn't going to help: the existing dnsmasq
process will just go away from minutes parsing the blocklist instead.
Simon.
> Gordon
>
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