Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Noob question

2021-09-16 Thread Petr Menšík
It seems too cryptic to me. It seems to me usually overriding some name, I would expect also other query types to be handled. Could we support for example: --address=/example.com/#,local meaning the same value as another --local=/example.com/ specified? Just on single line, only one domain per

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Noob question

2021-08-31 Thread Simon Kelley
On 31/08/2021 10:49, Dominik DL6ER wrote: > > Our conclusion was that the all-zero address (0.0.0.0 and [::]) > approach is the most effective one to block A and queries. > For all other query types we recommend NODATA (i.e., a NOERROR reply > with no answer records). Using this

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Noob question

2021-08-31 Thread Dominik DL6ER
Hey all, [TL;DR: Check out the last paragraph] d Pi-hole, an free and open source ad-blocker, is based on dnsmasq. As blocking is at our hearth, we've done studies on which blocking "modes" would work the best in which situation. Our studies included serving fixed addresses (to a self-hosted page

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Noob question

2021-08-31 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas via Dnsmasq-discuss
On 31.08.21 01:15, Trey Sis wrote: I think he meant dropping the DNS request. dropping the DNS request would result in request retransmission. returning answer is a better idea, although we can discuss if it's supposed to be all-zero, NXDOMAIN, or NODATA (SERVFAIL would result in

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Noob question

2021-08-30 Thread Trey Sis
I think he meant dropping the DNS request. On 8/31/2021 0:39, wkitt...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/30/21 6:00 PM, rrandom via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: Thank you. Btw why dnsmasq redirects that connections but doesn't just drop them? Honestly, I don't know much about networking but simple dropping

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Noob question

2021-08-30 Thread wkitty42
On 8/30/21 6:00 PM, rrandom via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: Thank you. Btw why dnsmasq redirects that connections but doesn't just drop them? Honestly, I don't know much about networking but simple dropping seems like easier for resources. dropping connections is outside of dnsmasq's purview...

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Noob question

2021-08-30 Thread rrandom via Dnsmasq-discuss
Thank you. Btw why dnsmasq redirects that connections but doesn't just drop them? Honestly, I don't know much about networking but simple dropping seems like easier for resources. On 30/08/21 12:11PM, Simon Kelley wrote: > On 30/08/2021 11:06, rrandom via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: > > Hello. In

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Noob question

2021-08-30 Thread Trey Sis
On 8/30/2021 13:15, Matus UHLAR - fantomas via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: On 30.08.21 13:06, rrandom via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: Hello.  In one of the dnsmasq filterlists I found that domains redirected to `#` like `address=/example.com/#` Wouldn't it be better to return NXDOMAIN instead of

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Noob question

2021-08-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas via Dnsmasq-discuss
On 30.08.21 13:06, rrandom via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: Hello. In one of the dnsmasq filterlists I found that domains redirected to `#` like `address=/example.com/#` this is in changelog for 2.80: Implement --address=/example.com/# as (more efficient) syntactic sugar for

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Noob question

2021-08-30 Thread Simon Kelley
On 30/08/2021 11:06, rrandom via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: > Hello. In one of the dnsmasq filterlists I found that domains redirected to > `#` like `address=/example.com/#` > > But in man I read: > >> The special server address '#' means, "use the standard servers", so >>