[haiku-development] Re: Proposal: {dns,name,resolver}_server

  • From: Alexander Botero-Lowry <alex.boterolowry@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Izomiac <haikulist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:33:31 -0800

> I like this idea, DNS seems to give me more connectivity issues than
> anything.  One nice feature would be falling back to a default set of DNS
> servers (or query the root servers).  It's kinda a pain if your DNS or DHCP
If I end up using ldns, adding support for having the net_server dns part be 
able to
 do recursive queries would be pretty easy.

> server goes down and you don't have the IP address of another DNS server
> memorized.  Possible server pools would include the US Military or OpenNIC.
> I've heard OpenDNS does NX domain hijacking, so that would be a less
> desirable option.
One of the advanced features I'm planning to implement is what dnsmasq calls
bogus-nxdomain, which basically says that if a domain resolves to a particular 
domain
it's actually not a match, which makes hijacking behave correctly at least for 
the simple
case where you get routed to some single dumb ISP web server.

alex

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