From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/8763 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Re: Would love to see reconsideration for domain and search Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 18:02:15 -0400 Message-ID: <20151024220215.GV8645@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20151023052625.GD55813@wopr.sciops.net> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445724153 8822 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2015 22:02:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 22:02:33 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-8776-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Oct 25 00:02:33 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zq6tT-0008Dy-9s for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 00:02:31 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 9643 invoked by uid 550); 24 Oct 2015 22:02:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 9616 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2015 22:02:28 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:8763 Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 02:33:31PM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: > On Oct 24, 2015 12:20 PM, "Kurt H Maier" wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 02:24:11PM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: > > > > > > I understand your point, though the world at large tends to disagree. > > > > The world at large uses bad software. Please don't use this sort of > > reasoning as a justification for and embrace-extend operation on actual > > standards. > > Where is the standard that defines ordering semantics in resolv.conf? I don't think it's useful to argue about intent unless someone wants to dig up history and find out what the original implementors intended, and even then it's rather arbitrary whether people would care about that intent since it doesn't seem to have been documented explicitly. My view is that it's more useful to consider the consequences of both interpretations and draw a conclusion that one should be preferred from the bad consequences of the other. > > > The real world is not ideal. Not all nameservers are identically > > > scoped - you MUST respect the ordering in resolv.conf - to do > > > otherwise is semantically broken. If implementation simplicity means > > > literally doing queries in serial, then that is what you should do. > > > > You absolutely cannot respect the ordering in resolv.conf; at least not > > if you're relying on someone else's resolver. If the orchestration > > software depends on specific results being returned in particular > > orders, the orchestration software should provide a mechanism to > > generate them. > > > > > Similarly, you can't just search all search domains in parallel and > > > take the first response. The ordering is meaningful. > > > > It should not be, and more to the point will not reliably be, > > meaningful. > > Search has to be ordered. You can not possibly argue otherwise? Indeed, search certainly has to be ordered. Otherwise results are most definitely non-deterministic. The trivial example would be looking up "www" with 2 or more search domains. In any case, it was discussed way back that, while parallel search could be implemented as long as a result from search domain N is not accepted until negative results from domains 1 to N-1 are received, the implementation complexity cost was too high relative to the value of such a feature. > > You are arguing for introducing performance penalties into musl that do > > not affect you but do very much affect lots of other users. I hope they > > do not happen -- musl is not the right place to fix your problem. > > I am arguing for adding a very standard feature (search) to open musl to a > whole new space of users. Nobody is forcing you to use search paths or > ndots. The only place adding search support might negatively impact existing musl users is by causing hostnames with no dots to be queried with the (often useless and unwanted) default domain set by dhcp before failing. My preference would probably be having musl default to ndots=0 rather than ndots=1 so that search has to be enabled explicitly. Are there any reasons this would be undesirable? Rich