James Yonan wrote: > Peter Rabbitson wrote: >> >> Eventually the best way to deal with this is to test for >> ip_addr_dotted_quad_safe and is_special_addr, and then attempt a dns >> lookup on the string supplied for route. If anything comes back - use >> the result as the routed IPs. Otherwise warn and carry on. This would >> also fix this long-outstanding (not mine) wishlist: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237251 > > I agree that this should be fixed, probably via a --route-fqdn-pull > option (as suggested) on the client to permit DNS lookups on option > parameters that previously allowed them. >
I think if you go with my second suggestion (above) the option becomes redundant. You can attempt a DNS lookup with pretty much anything (as far as string goes), and if nothing comes back - well nothing comes back. In any case, I'm glad this didn't fall off the radar. Thank you for the excellent software! Peter
