On Tue August 22 2006 08:00, Peter Bieringer wrote: > Hi, > > after some discussions with people from Red Hat I'm still not able to > convince them that the behavior of getaddrinfo in glibc is buggy, if > search domains in /etc/resolv.conf are specified. > > Currently, it can return IPv6 and IPv4 addresses of different hosts, > depending what happen during AAAA lookups while appending a search > domain. If successful, application gets back e.g. > > AAAA fec0::1 (www.redhat.com.intranet.domain.example) > A 66.187.224.150 (www.redhat.com) > > Not good, if application prefers IPv6...it connects unexpected to the > wrong host. > > > Me was told inbetween (and a short look into the source code shows like > that), that getaddrinfo uses DNS lookups more abstract and it can't be > fixed in an easy manner. > > Last note I get was I should provide more information or a whitepaper, > that current behavior is more a bug than a feature...and support/request > of the community is required. > > Therefore my next (last) try is to inform the IPv6 community about this > issue. Please read details below and perhaps vote for > > ( ) bug, should be fixed in > [ ] newer releases > [ ] current release > [ ] older releases, too > ( ) feature, no need to fix it > ( ) ... > > Feel free to add yourself to bugzilla entries shown below. >
I would file this under "Bug, should be fixed in all releases". This is a potential security issue. If the name exists, but the requested RR doesn't, the server should return NO_ERROR (it does) which should be considered a successful answer and futher queries for RR type should stop. -vlad --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
