Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 18:24:39 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: brian@awfulhak.org Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken resolver/named Message-ID: <28457.872439879@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Aug 1997 12:54:02 %2B0100" References: <199708241154.MAA00755@awfulhak.org>
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> So I send a query to my forwarder that asks for "x", and it looks it > up ? What's it likely to find ? The worst case would be > ``x.demon.co.uk'' (my ISP's domain) which is dumb (and why named > disables the LOCALDOM stuff by default). The normal case would be > the generation of a load of useless DNS traffic. How can your resolver know which queries are useless, unless it asks the DNS? How can it know that "no" is a valid top level domain, while "nx" is not? > > There's nothing there needs fixing, AFAICT. Maybe the manual pages, but the resolver itself is doing what it should. > Well, if anything, the "domain ..." isn't behaving - it should try > x.lan.awfulhak.org, x.awfulhak.org and x.org. I also suggest that > "search ..." is broken either in a similar way or because it should > behave as I originally suggested. Read RFC 1535 to see why having this search behavior as default is not a good idea (it's a security hole, and generates a lot of unecessary traffic). Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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