Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [patch] Option to remove A-forA

2018-02-14 Thread Simon Kelley
On 26/01/18 18:17, Mattias Hellström wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Simon Kelley > wrote: > > On 25/01/18 15:03, Mattias Hellström wrote: > > Hi, > > I have made a patch to disable the A-for-A feature.  > > I believe that the text port

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [patch] Option to remove A-forA

2018-01-26 Thread Mattias Hellström
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Simon Kelley wrote: > On 25/01/18 15:03, Mattias Hellström wrote: > > Hi, > > I have made a patch to disable the A-for-A feature. > > I believe that the text portions can be made better by an actual DNS > expert. > > > > There are no downsides to doing A-for-A, as

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [patch] Option to remove A-forA

2018-01-26 Thread Simon Kelley
On 25/01/18 15:03, Mattias Hellström wrote: > Hi, > I have made a patch to disable the A-for-A feature.  > I believe that the text portions can be made better by an actual DNS expert. > > Given the following quote, and if that trend holds true, there are > probably no significant A-for-A requests

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [patch] Option to remove A-forA

2018-01-26 Thread Mattias Hellström
+++ b/man/dnsmasq.8 +.TP +.B --no-afora +Do not treat A-for-A DNS requests special. I.e. do not duck type a FQDN to an IP. +++ b/src/option.c + { LOPT_NO_AFORA, OPT_NO_AFORA, NULL, gettext_noop("Do not treat A-for-A special."), NULL }, >Those text portions?? Yes those, I am not super happy about

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [patch] Option to remove A-forA

2018-01-26 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 09:03:07AM +0100, Mattias Hellström wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 04:03:57PM +0100, Mattias Hellström wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have made a patch to disable the A-for-A feature. > > > I believe that the text portio

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [patch] Option to remove A-forA

2018-01-26 Thread Mattias Hellström
Looks like I invoked a whitespace problem in the copy paste. Here is the patch as attachment. The relevant parts are equal to the unmengled if I test with "diff -bB" On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 04:03:57PM +0100, Mattias Hellström wrote: > > H

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [patch] Option to remove A-forA

2018-01-25 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 04:03:57PM +0100, Mattias Hellström wrote: > Hi, > I have made a patch to disable the A-for-A feature. > I believe that the text portions can be made better by an actual DNS expert. > > Given the following quote, and if that trend holds true, there are probably > no signifi

[Dnsmasq-discuss] [patch] Option to remove A-forA

2018-01-25 Thread Mattias Hellström
Hi, I have made a patch to disable the A-for-A feature. I believe that the text portions can be made better by an actual DNS expert. Given the following quote, and if that trend holds true, there are probably no significant A-for-A requests anymore. The percentages of A-for-A seen by root servers