Service point change log - BlueCat Edge - Service Point v3.x.x

BlueCat Edge Deployment Guide

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BlueCat Edge
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Service Point v3.x.x

The following section outlines changes that have been made between BlueCat Edge Service Point versions:

Attention: When you upgrade to BlueCat Edge SP v3.3.1, you cannot downgrade to v3.0.7 or lower.

3.10.0

  • Introduces support for non-standard DNS ports, allowing namespaces to forward queries to ports other than the default DNS port (53).

3.9.1

  • Introduces a fix where the IP addresses added to the Source IP Lists in a namespace were not evaluated correctly while providing DNS resolution. This issue only impacts namespaces configured on Service Point v4 instances.

3.9.0

  • Introduces source port randomization when forwarding DNS queries.

3.8.0

  • Introduces support for Trust policies. Trust policies let you trust certain domains that might be blocked and allow them to be resolved. For example, you can create a trust policy that allows domains that might have been incorrectly blocked by policies using threat detection. BlueCat recommends configuring a global trust policy that includes internal domains that can be characterized as tunneling or DGA.

    Trust policies override block, redirect, and monitor policies.

3.7.0

  • When a query comes in for a namespace where all the configured forwarders are unreachable, it temporarily marks all forwarders as down and skips them for any queries in that namespace until they become available. Health checks are performed on the forwarders every second and after 5 failed attempts to resolve a query, it marks the forwarder as down until a single successful response is received. This accelerates the DNS response time to the client and logs the timed-out queries as a SERVFAIL.

    If SERVFAIL is added as a condition to the Response Code, the service point will try to resolve the query in the next available namespace configured on the site.

  • Previously, the service point network probe would log external connectivity tests once per hour. Starting in Service Point v3.7.0, the network probe log frequency has been updated to once every 5 minutes.
  • Previously, the service point controller would log excessive and repetitive event messages. Service Point v3.7.0 introduces log rate limiting that drops events when a threshold has been reached.

3.6.0

  • Introduces the ability to decommission service points.
  • Introduces the ability to log timed out queries in the query logs page of the Edge Cloud.
  • Introduces support for SERVFAIL response codes.
  • Introduces support for HINFO query types.

3.5.4

  • Introduces improvements to the resiliency of service points in networks with low bandwidth and high latency by increasing the following timeouts:
    • Global DNS query timeout
    • Timeout per Namespace
    • Forwarder health check timeout threshold before a forwarder is marked as down
    • Timeout when pulling a service point image

3.5.3

  • Introduces an Anycast fix for the upgrade to 3.5.2.

3.5.2

  • You can now use the service point diagnostics UI to retrieve a summary of services running on the service point. The service point diagnostics can be accessed through your browser through the following URL: http://<service_point_IP>/ui.
  • Introduces updates to address CVE-2021-44228: A vulnerability in the Log4J Logging library can under some circumstances be exploited to run malicious code in the Java Virtual Machine.

3.4.2

  • Addresses an issue where the routing-controller-service status within the response of the service point /v1/status/spDiagnostics API would return a status of BAD.

3.4.1

  • Addresses an issue where the service point /v1/status/health API would return a 500 internal server error.

3.4.0

  • You can now configure EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) options when configuring namespaces. The EDNS Client Subnet option allows the namespace to forward the subnet information in DNS queries to downstream servers for geographical evaluation. You can configure an IPv4 and IPv6 prefix to forward. The namespace applies the specified IPv4 or IPv6 prefix as the ECS value, overriding any existing ECS value of incoming DNS queries. You can also disable overriding to ensure that the namespace forwards DNS queries with the existing ECS value.
  • When configuring a namespace to use the Cisco Umbrella integration, you can now select the Encrypt queries using DNS over HTTPS option within a namespace to ensure that queries routed to Cisco Umbrella are encrypted using DNS over HTTPS (DoH).
  • BlueCat Edge now exposes additional DNS message fields to examine security events and identify DNS service health. DNS message fields now include the response time, query ID, query class ID, query EDNS options, and response EDNS options.
  • For sites that contain multiple namespaces, you can now configure a set of response codes within a namespace. If any of the configured DNS query response codes are returned to this namespace, the next namespace within a site will attempt to resolve the DNS queries. By default, NXDOMAIN is configured.

3.3.3

  • Addresses the truncating of responses at 512 bytes when using UDP without EDNS.

3.3.2

  • Addresses NXDOMAIN response behavior for Block Policy evaluation.

3.3.1

  • Introduces support for utilizing the Source IP and CIDR as an operational matching criteria within a Namespace.
  • Introduces the ability to resolve expired queries from cache when the upstream server is unavailable.
  • Provides support for DNS/DHCP Server upgrades.

3.2.3

  • Introduces updates to address multiple CVE vulnerabilities.
  • Improves memory utilization to enhance resilience and restart conditions.

3.2.2

  • Improves QPS performance with full query logging using a VM with current specifications. QPS guidance for various configurations will be published separately in a follow up communication.
  • Vertical scalability: allocating additional memory and vCPUs will increase QPS performance within limits.
  • Service points will now by default load balance queries to the forwarders defined within a namespace. The service point will select a forwarder within a namespace using the following algorithm:
    • Pick the server with least number of “in flight” queries.
    • In case of a tie, pick the one with the lowest measured latency (over an average on the last 128 queries answered by that server).
  • Default health check of upstream DNS servers (For example, forwarders configured within a namespace configuration). The service point sends a health check query (a query for “a.root-servers.net.”) every second to determine the availability of a DNS server configured as a forwarder within a namespace. This record does not need to be resolved successfully for a positive health check, however the forwarder must return a status.
  • Service points will now, by default, provide added resiliency by serving expired records from cache when the upstream DNS server defined in the namespace is unavailable. Expired records will be served when available in cache, for a duration of 1 hour after expiry.
  • Configure the service point to enable Custom Logging — securely store your data in BlueCat Edge Cloud to conduct advanced analysis, and/or send data in a standard JSON format to any HTTP/HTTPS endpoint on your network. For more information on how to configure this functionality, refer to Custom Logging.

3.0.7

  • Introduces fix for the upgrade to 3.0.6.

3.0.6

  • Introduces support to deploy service points on a BlueCat DNS/DHCP Server.

3.0.4

  • Initial introduction of support that enables customers to manage the service point updates independently.