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benvin 671c43b05b Merge pull request 'Accept intra-cluster NOTIFY on secondaries via allow-notify' (#14) from benvin/allow-notify-intra-cluster into main
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unkinben 7771711682 Accept intra-cluster NOTIFY on secondaries via allow-notify
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Secondaries transfer catalog member and plain secondary zones from the
primary Service ClusterIP (stable across primary pod restarts), and BIND
derives a zone's implicit allow-notify from its primaries list. But the
primary pod's NOTIFYs egress with its *pod* IP as source — k8s Services
NAT only the inbound direction — so BIND refuses them as "refused notify
from non-primary" and replication falls back to the SOA refresh timer, a
1-hour propagation delay on every dynamic zone (external-dns RFC2136 and
dns-updater nsupdates alike).

Render an options-scope allow-notify on secondaries covering the primary
pod IP (and the transfer address, since an explicit allow-notify replaces
the primaries-derived default). The cluster controller resolves the
primary pod IP the same way it already does for seeding/also-notify, and
the existing Pod watch re-renders the ConfigMap when the pod IP changes.
2026-07-25 22:48:35 +10:00
benvin 439aa9ea6b Merge pull request 'Notify secondaries immediately on primary zone changes' (#13) from benvin/notify-secondaries into main
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2026-07-21 00:23:13 +10:00
unkinben 6a07f91ea1 Notify secondaries immediately on primary zone changes
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Dynamically-updated primary zones were only reaching the secondary pods on
the hardcoded 1h SOA refresh: the operator emitted no NOTIFY, and a zone's
only apex NS is the primary itself, so default 'notify yes' reached no one.
Queries load-balanced across the serve VIP hit stale secondaries and
returned NXDOMAIN (negatively cached downstream for the 300s SOA minimum),
so records flapped for up to an hour after every update.

Add 'notify explicit' + 'also-notify' with the secondary pod IPs to primary
zone stanzas so an update NOTIFYs the secondaries for an immediate IXFR.
Applied via modzone, so existing zones pick it up on the next reconcile.
Also shorten the seed SOA refresh/retry/minimum as a fallback for missed
NOTIFYs and to shrink stale-NXDOMAIN negative caching.
2026-07-21 00:15:43 +10:00
7 changed files with 186 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ type RenderInput struct {
Forwards []bindv1alpha1.BindZone
// PrimaryAddress is the in-cluster address secondaries transfer from.
PrimaryAddress string
// PrimaryPodAddresses are the primary pod's own IP(s). Secondaries transfer
// from PrimaryAddress (the stable primary Service ClusterIP) but the primary
// pod's NOTIFYs egress with its *pod* IP as the source — k8s Services only
// NAT the inbound direction — so BIND, whose implicit allow-notify is the
// zone's primaries list (the ClusterIP), REFUSES them as "non-primary" and
// replication falls back to the SOA refresh timer. Secondaries render these
// into an options-scope allow-notify so intra-cluster NOTIFYs are accepted
// immediately. Empty leaves BIND's default behaviour unchanged.
PrimaryPodAddresses []string
}
// RenderNamedConf returns the primary and secondary named.conf contents for a
@@ -86,6 +95,12 @@ func render(in RenderInput, isPrimary bool) string {
b.WriteString(" allow-new-zones yes;\n")
}
b.WriteString(" dnssec-validation auto;\n")
// Secondaries accept NOTIFY from the primary's pod IP(s). Catalog member and
// plain secondary zones take their implicit allow-notify from their primaries
// (the primary Service ClusterIP), but the primary's NOTIFYs are sourced from
// its pod IP, so an options-scope allow-notify covering the pod IP(s) is
// needed or every NOTIFY is refused and replication waits for the SOA refresh.
b.WriteString(allowNotifyClause(in, isPrimary, " "))
for _, o := range c.Spec.ExtraOptions {
b.WriteString(" " + strings.TrimRight(o, ";") + ";\n")
}
@@ -277,6 +292,39 @@ func transferPrimaries(in RenderInput) []string {
return out
}
// allowNotifyClause renders an options-scope allow-notify on secondaries that
// permits the primary pod IP(s). Zones (catalog members and plain secondaries)
// point their primaries at the primary Service ClusterIP for stable AXFR, which
// also becomes their implicit allow-notify — but NOTIFYs leave the primary pod
// with its pod IP as source, so without this they are refused as "non-primary".
// Emitted only on secondaries and only when the primary pod IP(s) are known.
func allowNotifyClause(in RenderInput, isPrimary bool, indent string) string {
if isPrimary {
return ""
}
addrs := make([]string, 0, len(in.PrimaryPodAddresses)+1)
seen := map[string]bool{}
for _, a := range in.PrimaryPodAddresses {
a = strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimRight(a, ";"))
if a == "" || seen[a] {
continue
}
seen[a] = true
addrs = append(addrs, a)
}
// Keep the transfer address (the Service ClusterIP, or the pod IP when no
// primary Service exists) in the set: an explicit allow-notify replaces the
// implicit primaries-derived default, so it must still cover that source.
if a := strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimRight(in.PrimaryAddress, ";")); a != "" && !seen[a] {
addrs = append(addrs, a)
}
if len(addrs) == 0 {
return ""
}
sort.Strings(addrs)
return fmt.Sprintf("%sallow-notify { %s };\n", indent, terminate(addrs))
}
func catalogZonesClause(in RenderInput, isPrimary bool, indent string) string {
// Only secondaries consume the catalog to auto-provision member zones.
if in.Catalog == nil || isPrimary {
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@@ -98,6 +98,34 @@ func TestRenderCatalogPrimariesCarryTransferKey(t *testing.T) {
}
}
func TestRenderSecondaryAllowNotifyPrimaryPodIP(t *testing.T) {
// Secondaries transfer from the primary Service ClusterIP but the primary's
// NOTIFYs arrive from its pod IP, so an options allow-notify must cover the
// pod IP (and keep the transfer address) or BIND refuses them as non-primary.
in := RenderInput{
Cluster: newCluster(bindv1alpha1.ModeAuthoritative),
PrimaryAddress: "10.43.5.5",
PrimaryPodAddresses: []string{"10.42.3.197"},
}
primary, secondary := RenderNamedConf(in)
if !strings.Contains(secondary, "allow-notify { 10.42.3.197; 10.43.5.5; };") {
t.Fatalf("secondary allow-notify must cover the primary pod IP and transfer address:\n%s", secondary)
}
if strings.Contains(primary, "allow-notify") {
t.Fatalf("primary must not render allow-notify (it is the notifier, not a secondary):\n%s", primary)
}
}
func TestRenderSecondaryAllowNotifyOmittedWhenPodIPUnknown(t *testing.T) {
// With no primary pod IP known there is nothing to add beyond BIND's implicit
// primaries-derived default; emit nothing rather than a bare/duplicate clause.
in := RenderInput{Cluster: newCluster(bindv1alpha1.ModeAuthoritative)}
_, secondary := RenderNamedConf(in)
if strings.Contains(secondary, "allow-notify") {
t.Fatalf("no allow-notify should be emitted when no primary addresses are known:\n%s", secondary)
}
}
func TestRenderForwardZoneInView(t *testing.T) {
rec := true
in := RenderInput{
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@@ -35,13 +35,19 @@ func (e *Executor) ZoneExists(ctx context.Context, namespace, pod, zone, view st
func (e *Executor) WriteSeedZone(ctx context.Context, namespace, pod, zone, path, primaryIP string, serial int64) error {
origin := dot(zone)
ns := "ns1." + origin
// Short refresh/retry so a secondary that misses a NOTIFY (e.g. its pod IP
// changed and the primary's also-notify was briefly stale) still converges
// in minutes, not the hour a 3600s refresh would impose. minimum is the
// negative-cache TTL: keep it low so a stale-secondary NXDOMAIN does not
// stick in downstream resolvers for long. NOTIFY (also-notify on the
// primary) remains the fast path; these are the fallback.
content := fmt.Sprintf(`$TTL 3600
@ IN SOA %s hostmaster.%s (
%d ; serial
3600 ; refresh
900 ; retry
300 ; refresh
60 ; retry
1209600 ; expire
300 ) ; minimum
60 ) ; minimum
@ IN NS %s
ns1 IN A %s
`, ns, origin, serial, ns, primaryIP)
@@ -176,6 +176,14 @@ func (r *BindClusterReconciler) reconcileConfigMap(ctx context.Context, c *bindv
// across primary pod restarts (falls back to the pod IP when no primary
// Service exists; the Pod/Service watches re-render when it changes).
in := bind.RenderInput{Cluster: c, PrimaryAddress: primaryTransferAddress(ctx, r.Client, c)}
// Secondaries transfer from the stable primary Service ClusterIP, but the
// primary pod's NOTIFYs are sourced from its pod IP, which BIND refuses as
// "non-primary" unless it appears in allow-notify. Render the primary pod IP
// so intra-cluster NOTIFYs are accepted immediately (the Pod watch re-renders
// the ConfigMap when the pod IP changes across restarts).
if ip := primaryPodIP(ctx, r.Client, c); ip != "" {
in.PrimaryPodAddresses = []string{ip}
}
var acls bindv1alpha1.BindACLList
if err := r.List(ctx, &acls, client.InNamespace(c.Namespace)); err == nil {
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@@ -80,7 +80,15 @@ func (r *BindZoneReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, req ctrl.Request) (c
return r.setPhase(ctx, &zone, "Pending", "PrimaryNotReady", "waiting for cluster primary to be ready")
}
zoneConfig, err := r.buildZoneConfig(ctx, &zone, r.zoneTransferKeyRef(ctx, &zone, cluster))
// Primary zones replicated to secondaries (catalog members) get an
// also-notify pointing at the secondary pods, so a dynamic update NOTIFYs
// them immediately rather than waiting for the SOA refresh.
var notifyTargets []string
if isPrimaryType(zone.Spec.Type) && catalogEnabled(&zone) {
notifyTargets = secondaryPodIPs(ctx, r.Client, cluster)
}
zoneConfig, err := r.buildZoneConfig(ctx, &zone, r.zoneTransferKeyRef(ctx, &zone, cluster), notifyTargets)
if err != nil {
return r.setPhase(ctx, &zone, "Error", "ConfigError", err.Error())
}
@@ -135,7 +143,7 @@ func (r *BindZoneReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, req ctrl.Request) (c
// buildZoneConfig renders the inner clause passed to rndc addzone/modzone.
// transferKey, when set, is the catalog transfer TSIG key name; catalog member
// primary zones must allow AXFR with it so secondaries can pull them.
func (r *BindZoneReconciler) buildZoneConfig(ctx context.Context, zone *bindv1alpha1.BindZone, transferKey string) (string, error) {
func (r *BindZoneReconciler) buildZoneConfig(ctx context.Context, zone *bindv1alpha1.BindZone, transferKey string, notifyTargets []string) (string, error) {
zType := zone.Spec.Type
if zType == "" {
zType = bindv1alpha1.ZonePrimary
@@ -154,6 +162,12 @@ func (r *BindZoneReconciler) buildZoneConfig(ctx context.Context, zone *bindv1al
// Catalog member: permit key-authenticated AXFR from secondaries.
parts = append(parts, fmt.Sprintf("allow-transfer { key \"%s\"; }", transferKey))
}
// NOTIFY only the secondaries we know about (their apex NS is the primary
// itself, so default `notify yes` would reach no one). `notify explicit`
// keeps NOTIFY off the query-serving VIP and scoped to the pod IPs.
if len(notifyTargets) > 0 {
parts = append(parts, "notify explicit", fmt.Sprintf("also-notify { %s }", terminateInline(notifyTargets)))
}
if zone.Spec.DNSSECPolicyRef != "" {
parts = append(parts, fmt.Sprintf("dnssec-policy \"%s\"", zone.Spec.DNSSECPolicyRef), "inline-signing yes")
}
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
package controller
import (
"context"
"strings"
"testing"
bindv1alpha1 "git.unkin.net/unkin/bind-operator/api/v1alpha1"
)
// A primary zone with known secondaries renders notify explicit + also-notify
// so a dynamic update NOTIFYs the secondaries immediately.
func TestBuildZoneConfigPrimaryAlsoNotify(t *testing.T) {
r := &BindZoneReconciler{}
zone := &bindv1alpha1.BindZone{
Spec: bindv1alpha1.BindZoneSpec{
ZoneName: "main.unkin.net",
Type: bindv1alpha1.ZonePrimary,
},
}
cfg, err := r.buildZoneConfig(context.Background(), zone, "transfer-key", []string{"10.42.2.6", "10.42.1.5"})
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("buildZoneConfig: %v", err)
}
if !strings.Contains(cfg, "notify explicit") {
t.Errorf("expected notify explicit in %q", cfg)
}
if !strings.Contains(cfg, "also-notify { 10.42.2.6; 10.42.1.5; }") {
t.Errorf("expected also-notify with the secondary IPs in %q", cfg)
}
}
// With no secondaries, no also-notify is emitted (single-replica cluster).
func TestBuildZoneConfigPrimaryNoNotifyTargets(t *testing.T) {
r := &BindZoneReconciler{}
zone := &bindv1alpha1.BindZone{
Spec: bindv1alpha1.BindZoneSpec{ZoneName: "main.unkin.net", Type: bindv1alpha1.ZonePrimary},
}
cfg, err := r.buildZoneConfig(context.Background(), zone, "transfer-key", nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("buildZoneConfig: %v", err)
}
if strings.Contains(cfg, "also-notify") || strings.Contains(cfg, "notify explicit") {
t.Errorf("did not expect notify clauses with no targets: %q", cfg)
}
}
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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package controller
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"sort"
"time"
corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
@@ -126,6 +127,34 @@ func primaryTransferAddress(ctx context.Context, c client.Client, cluster *bindv
return primaryPodIP(ctx, c, cluster)
}
// secondaryPodIPs returns the pod IPs of a cluster's secondary pods (every pod
// except the ordinal-0 primary) that currently have an address. The primary
// uses this list as its zone `also-notify` set, so a change to a primary zone
// (in particular a dynamic update) triggers an immediate NOTIFY -> IXFR to the
// secondaries instead of leaving them stale until the next SOA refresh. The
// list is sorted so the rendered zone config is stable and does not churn
// modzone on every reconcile. Pod IPs change across restarts, so the caller
// relies on the zone controller's periodic requeue to refresh the set (a
// restarted secondary re-transfers the whole zone on load regardless). Returns
// nil for a single-replica cluster.
func secondaryPodIPs(ctx context.Context, c client.Client, cluster *bindv1alpha1.BindCluster) []string {
var pods corev1.PodList
if err := c.List(ctx, &pods, client.InNamespace(cluster.Namespace), client.MatchingLabels(commonLabels(cluster.Name))); err != nil {
return nil
}
primary := primaryPodName(cluster.Name)
var ips []string
for i := range pods.Items {
p := &pods.Items[i]
if p.Name == primary || p.Status.PodIP == "" {
continue
}
ips = append(ips, p.Status.PodIP)
}
sort.Strings(ips)
return ips
}
// resolveTSIG reads the material of a BindTSIGKey into TSIG credentials.
func resolveTSIG(ctx context.Context, c client.Client, namespace, keyRef string) (bind.TSIGCreds, error) {
var creds bind.TSIGCreds