DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ)

dnsdist supports DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ, standardized in RFC 9250) for incoming queries since 1.9.0. To see if the installation supports this, run dnsdist --version. If the output shows dns-over-quic incoming DNS-over-QUIC is supported.

Incoming

Adding a listen port for DNS-over-QUIC can be done with the addDOQLocal() function, e.g.:

addDOQLocal('2001:db8:1:f00::1', '/etc/ssl/certs/example.com.pem', '/etc/ssl/private/example.com.key')

This will make dnsdist listen on [2001:db8:1:f00::1]:853 on UDP, and will use the provided certificate and key to serve incoming DoQ connections.

The fourth parameter, if present, indicates various options. For instance, you can change the congestion control algorithm used. An example is:

addDOQLocal('2001:db8:1:f00::1', '/etc/ssl/certs/example.com.pem', '/etc/ssl/private/example.com.key', {congestionControlAlgo="bbr"})

A particular attention should be taken to the permissions of the certificate and key files. Many ACME clients used to get and renew certificates, like CertBot, set permissions assuming that services are started as root, which is no longer true for dnsdist as of 1.5.0. For that particular case, making a copy of the necessary files in the /etc/dnsdist directory is advised, using for example CertBot’s --deploy-hook feature to copy the files with the right permissions after a renewal.

More information about sessions management can also be found in TLS Sessions Management.