Re: Bogus Root DNS server Traffic.

[Daniel Roesen <dr cluenet de>]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:32:53PM -0400, Jason Giglio wrote:
> This bug is in SuSe, Debian, every version of Red Hat I tested.

Looks like the stub resolver in glibc. Permutation order should be
hostname over AFI, not AFI over hostname, agreed.

So the correct query sequence should be:

- AAAA host.domain.com.
- A host.domain.com.
- AAAA host.
- A host.

> That middle query is causing bogus root DNS server traffic every time 
> someone sshs to an unqualified hostname within their LAN.

Nod.

> SSH people won't take responsibility for this bug.

They are correct. It's not their fault.

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131610
> The Fedora people won't take responsibility for this bug.

They do, did you test as Florian asked you?


Regards,
Daniel

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