From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@adelielinux.org>, musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: DNS resolver patch
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 16:01:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181206210152.GC23599@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnuegzpq.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 09:36:01PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * A. Wilcox:
>
> > On 12/06/18 12:18, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> The alternative, using a NOERROR/NODATA response, confuses musl search
> >> processing.
> >
> > ???
> >
> > The musl resolver should be able to handle a resolver returning NODATA.
> > That is popular for having a separate extranet infrastructure - your
> > extranet DNS only contains records for your local domain and returns
> > NODATA for requests outside that domain.
> >
> > If you are correct that such a response "confuses musl search
> > processing", that's a bug in musl that needs to be fixed.
>
> <https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2018/03/31/2>
>
> I don't know if it was merged.
That patch didn't (and fundamentally can't) produce fully-consistent
results (consistent with non-A/AAAA queries). Something similar (with
configurable opt-in) might be sufficient if there were a need, but
supposedly the underlying issue with Cloudflare was fixed. So in
summary, it hasn't been merged.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-06 21:01 UTC|newest]
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2018-12-06 5:31 ` Tarun Johar
2018-12-06 14:13 ` Rich Felker
2018-12-06 15:23 ` Natanael Copa
2018-12-06 14:53 ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-06 15:48 ` Natanael Copa
2018-12-06 18:18 ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-06 18:38 ` A. Wilcox
2018-12-06 19:46 ` Laurent Bercot
2018-12-25 2:06 ` Rich Felker
2018-12-27 19:18 ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-28 17:21 ` Rich Felker
2019-05-30 8:50 ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-30 13:54 ` Rich Felker
2018-12-06 20:36 ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-06 21:01 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2018-12-06 18:50 ` Tarun Johar
2018-12-06 19:36 ` Tarun Johar
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