unbound.conf(5) access-control suggestions

W.C.A. Wijngaards wouter at nlnetlabs.nl
Tue Sep 22 13:05:58 UTC 2015


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Hi Patrik,

On 05/08/15 20:14, Patrik Lundin via Unbound-users wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Following the recent man page modifications I was reminded of
> another part of the manual that I am curios if it could be modifed
> a bit. This is the part about the access-control statement. I have
> two suggestions:
> 
> #1. Mention how the rules are evaluated. Is it first match wins,
> last match wins, or most specific match wins? This is important
> when configuring overlapping rules (because only a specific subset
> should have allow_snoop for example). My testing points towards
> the most-specific-match option.

Yes. Documented that.

> 
> #2. Mention what the behaviour is for clients that do not match a 
> configured ACL. While it is stated that the unconfigured default
> is "allow localhost and refuse the rest", it is not explicitly
> stated what happens to unmatched clients when once an ACL is
> configured.

The "deny" action is taken if there are no rules.  Documented that.

Best regards, Wouter


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