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Subject: Re: [9front] DNS/ICMP via sshnet(4) or drawterm
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Quoth unobe@cpan.org:
> Quoth ori@eigenstate.org:
> > if the goal is dns, it may be better to simply make us
> > fall back to dns-over-tcp.
> 
> Thanks for pointing that out, Ori. I didn't know about dns-over-tcp;
> I never had to do a request that required it, apparently.  That would
> entail modifying ndb/dns*, yeah?
> 
> My other major use case is ping.  I see that there is such a thing as
> ping-over-tcp.  I suppose one of the use cases for providing
> ping-over-tcp is seeing if packet-shaping is having an impact on a
> connection.  That would suggest to me that ip/ping would be modified,
> or just a separate utility.
> 

I don't think ICMP forwarding is worth the effort;
it's ok to just not have it.