Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Handling unknown RTYPEs and querying for version...

2010-11-29 Thread Nicholas Weaver
Oh wait, no it didn't pass... We dump what we do to stdout and upload it at the transcript: http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/transcript/id=43ca208a-28815-3a04eee7-dbda-4220-84b4/side=client The test in question is #31. (I was looking at the wrong test, we also test the same name directly to

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Handling unknown RTYPEs and querying for version...

2010-12-01 Thread Nicholas Weaver
No worries, those queries will be useful enough. THanks! On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Simon Kelley si...@thekelleys.org.uk wrote: On 30/11/10 20:15, Nicholas Weaver wrote: Thanks all, this helps a lot! A related question:  The chaos txt version.bind query is very useful

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq + nat(solved)

2011-01-10 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Jan Seiffert kaffeemons...@googlemail.com wrote:       This target is used to overcome criminally braindead ISPs or servers which block  ICMP  Fragmentation  Needed  or  ICMPv6       Packet  Too  Big packets.  The symptoms of this problem are that everything

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq + nat(solved)

2011-01-10 Thread Nicholas Weaver
Oh nevermind, it affect the TCP option negotiation, so it causes the client to send smaller packets.  So it is a general solution for TCP (and only TCP).  For UDP, the mtu still needs to be reduced at the client. All but linux however do the right thing on UDP and don't send it with DF sent,

[Dnsmasq-discuss] possible minor bug: Caching the results of queries with +cd set...

2011-02-15 Thread Nicholas Weaver
(Note: I don't have the version # with me right now, as the NAT in question is at home, I can send taht tonight)... Experimenting with DNSSEC (the Comcast no-wildcarding servers are now full DNSSEC), I observed the following: www.dnssec-failed.org is a (comcast owned) domain with deliberately

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] AAAA Records delivery?

2011-04-25 Thread Nicholas Weaver
An A query for an only name should return a 0 answer NOERROR (so there is an answer, but no value) nweaver% dig ipv6.l.google.com ; DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 ipv6.l.google.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59724 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY:

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] DNSMasq and CDN (akamai, etc)

2011-07-08 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On Jul 8, 2011, at 3:28 AM, Simon Kelley wrote: I don't know if this http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-ip-01.txt is going anywhere (the latest draft has expired) but if it does then support in dnsmasq may be in order. I'd not bother supporting it in dnsmasq, it buys

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] git/svn/cvs? dnscrypt support?

2011-12-13 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On Dec 13, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Jason wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:53:09AM +, Simon Kelley wrote: On 08/12/11 15:48, Jason wrote: I found this [1] comment from 2010 regarding source control. Have you considered migrating to one? I only ask because I'm partial to git (I use it all

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] strange list server bounces

2012-05-08 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On May 8, 2012, at 8:15 AM, starli...@binnacle.cx wrote: Hello, A problem of some sort exists with the list server configuration. All messages submitted from here bounce when relayed by a mature 'sendmail' configuration. Only way to submit messages is manually using 'nc' directly to

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Any plans on adding ability to store cachetodisk?

2012-05-15 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On May 15, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: Nicholas Weaver wrote: Speaking as just a general DNS guy (I'm not a DNSMasq developer): Saving cache state is stupid. TTL dictates a MAXIMUM that data can remain in the cache, but doesn't dictate a minimum, as any minimum could

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Any plans on adding ability to store cachetodisk?

2012-05-15 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On May 15, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Timothy Madden wrote: And you were right, using dig @8.8.8.8 ... returned about 54ms for www.loveparty.ch, and 38 for www.google.ro, which is so, so fast for me! But than again I would not like to just count on that (an external DNS provider), instead of

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dns-rebind - RFC 3330

2012-06-12 Thread Nicholas Weaver
I'm assuming this can be disabled for using DNSMasq in a corporate environment, correct? Assuming thats the case. This looks good: On Jun 12, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Simon Kelley wrote: 127.0.0.0/8(loopback) (separately configured) 192.168.0.0/16 (private) 10.0.0.0/8 (private)

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dns-rebind - RFC 3330

2012-06-13 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On Jun 12, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Nicholas Weaver wrote: These clearly need the same treatment for records: FC00::/7 (Unique local unicast) FE80::/10 (Link local unicast) Oh, and, of course ::1 (v6 loopback), duh. There also may need to be something done with the IPv4-embeddable-in-v6

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq identification

2012-11-06 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On Nov 6, 2012, at 8:41 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: I look forward to it ... test7 is working well for me. Simon, I do not understand what dig chaos txt version.bind is suppose to mean/do. I tried it as you specified and also with one of my system's names in place of chaos. I got

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Shellshock.

2014-09-30 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On Sep 30, 2014, at 1:05 AM, Roy Marples r...@marples.name wrote: Of course, the shell isn't supposed to interpret metacharacters in the value of shell variables unless explicitly told to: so sanitising shouldn't be required (though I concede it would mitigate a lot of common shell-script

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Ignore certain returned DNS response?

2014-10-09 Thread Nicholas Weaver
can get rather messy rather quickly. And its not like this actually stops the censor if it gets widely deployed: the censor can instead recognize the TLS certificates for Facebook, Youtube, etc, and packet inject a RST on those connections. -- Nicholas Weaver it is a tale, told

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq deployed with dnssec

2014-10-13 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On Oct 13, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Simon Kelley si...@thekelleys.org.uk wrote: (I am puzzled about the edns0 result, tho.) Nicholas Weaver, of netalyzr fame, hangs out on here, so hopefully he'll be able to enlighten us. I think its an android-specific reporting bug, since the test WAS able

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] seeing www.ietf.org fail dnssec with dnsmasq rc7

2015-05-07 Thread Nicholas Weaver
One important consideration: The Internet has decreed a long time ago that fragments don't work for IPv4, and REALLY don't work for IPv6: the amount of systems that drop fragments for V6 is off the chart. For DNS, this means you get silent failures when the reply is bigger than the network's