Publication Server

重要

It is highly recommended to use an RPKI publication server provided by your parent CA, if available. This relieves you of the responsibility to keep a public rsync and web server available at all times.

It could also be considered good for the RPKI ecosystem as a whole to have at least some centralisation of publication. If Relying Party software around the world has to periodically fetch data from possibly hundreds of RPKI repositories with various degrees of availability and latency, this would not result in speedy updates.

Please keep in mind that it is crucial to ensure that your certificate and ROAs remain available at all times. When the Krill CA is unavailable you will not be able to make updates to your ROAs, and Krill will not (re-)publish objects at a repository. This does not need to affect relying parties as long as the repository remains available, and Krill comes back before objects start to become stale. You have 8 hours with the current built-in defaults.

That being said, only Brazilian NIC.br members can configure a hosted publication server without manual intervention at this time. APNIC members can get access to their publication server upon request. Everyone else will need to host their own repository for now.

When running your own repository, it is advisable to use multiple rsync servers and multiple web servers. You can also use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) in front of your web servers. Please note that the official name for the HTTPS based transport is the RPKI Repository Delta Protocol (RRDP), so you will see this abbreviation used throughout the documentation.

Using the Embedded Repository

警告

Please note it is practically impossible to change the configuration of Krill's embedded repository after it has been initialised. For production environments where you may want to change strategies over time we recommend running a separate Krill instance running as a repository only, as described in Remote Publishing.

Krill can use an embedded repository to publish RPKI objects. It can generate the required configuration for you using the krillc config subcommand. This ensures the syntax is correct, as for example trailing slashes are required. Use this command with your own values, using domain names pointing to servers that are publicly reachable.

krillc config repo \
   --token correct-horse-battery-staple \
   --data ~/data/ \
   --rrdp "https://rpki.example.net/rrdp/" \
   --rsync "rsync://rpki.example.net/repo/" > krill.conf

Krill will write the repository files under its data directory:

$DATA_DIR/repo/rsync/current/    Contains the files for Rsync
$DATA_DIR/repo/rrdp/             Contains the files for HTTPS (RRDP)

You can share the contents of these directories with your repository servers in various ways. It is possible to have a redundant shared file system where the Krill CA can write, and your repository servers can read. Alternatively, you can synchronise the contents of these directories in another way, such as Rsyncing them over every couple of minutes.

If you are using a shared file system, please note that the rsync /current directory cannot be the mount point. Krill tries to write the entire repository to a new folder under $DATA_DIR/repo/rsync and then renames it. This is done to minimise issues with files being updated while relying party software is fetching data.

The next step is to configure your rsync daemons to expose a 'module' for your files. Make sure that the Rsync URI including the 'module' matches the rsync_base in your Krill configuration file. Basic configuration can then be as simple as:

$ cat /etc/rsyncd.conf
uid = nobody
gid = nogroup
max connections = 50
socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE

[repo]
path = /var/lib/krill/data/repo/rsync/current/
comment = RPKI repository
read only = yes

For RRDP you will need to set up a web server of your choice and ensure that it has a valid TLS certificate. Next, you can make the files found under, or copied from $DATA_DIR/repo/rrdp available here. Make sure that the public URI to the RRDP base directory matches the value of rrdp_service_uri in your krill.conf file.

If desired, you can also use a CDN in front of this server to further reduce your load and uptime requirements. If you do, make sure that the public URI matches the directive in krill.conf, because this will be used in your RPKI certificate.

If you find that there is an issue with your repository or, for example, you want to change its domain name, you can set up a new Krill instance with an embedded repository. When you are satisfied that the new one is correct, you can migrate your CA to it by adding them as a publisher under the new repository server, and then updating your CA to use the new repository.

Krill will then make sure that objects are moved properly, and that a new certificate is requested from your parent(s) to match the new location. This scenario would also apply when your RIR starts providing a repository service. You can update your CA to start publishing there instead.