On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 07:15:32PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 19:39:28 +0200
> Alexander Schrijver wrote:
> 
> > > Yeah I'm not sure whether it is worth the effort but I was thinking if
> > > a user has set a localhost as the nameserver then can we be very close
> > > to certain that they are not going to change the resolv.conf?  
> > 
> > Having two DNS resolvers behave completely different because they're using
> > different configuration data seems confusing and dangerous to me.
> 
> In the localhost case? Changing your DNS randomly on a mail server
> seems confusing and dangerous to me. As a client well shouldn't you be
> using crypto/submission and not trusting DNS in any way?
> 
> All I am wondering is how many use base unbound or a static setup
> with opensmtpd and if there should atleast be a nob to turn chroot
> on/off?
> 

Nope there's currently no way to turn chrooting for the lookup process.
It's not really a resolver thing, we could have the resolver code in a
chroot with some refactoring, but we need a process that does not run
chrooted for other lookup purposes and it's more convenient to have the
resolver code handled by the process.


-- 
Gilles Chehade

https://www.poolp.org                                          @poolpOrg

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