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--- Comment #7 from Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> 2010-03-01 20:00:46 
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(In reply to comment #6)
> Now that I think of it, even the current (3.2, 3.3) code relies on a query
> section of a reply packet matching exactly the query packet. This happens
> to work on all mainstream DNS servers, but there is no guarantee for this
> in a form of a RFC requirement.  In essence, we are already depending on
> poor-man's form of a dns0x20, just without any additional entropy.
> 
> The 'dns_options dns0x20' could just as well default to true, without
> breaking anything that isn't already broken.
> 
> Does anybody feel we need to lift the requirement for an exact (case-for-case)
> match when dns0x20 option is NOT enabled? Some poor soul on a cheap home
> router/firewall/dns-server may be affected by this without knowing why
> his SA DNS queries sometimes fail.

If I understand you correctly, currently we require an exact match and that
could be causing some cheap-home DNS proxies, etc. to be having problems?

I'd say let's add a dbg that outputs the non-match if we can and if that
generates a lot of user questions, we open a different bug and address.

KAM

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