[haiku-development] Re: Proposal: adding no-check-names to resolv.conf by default
- From: pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:04:58 +0200
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 12:57:08PM +0200, Stephan Aßmus wrote:
> Am 02.07.2014 12:32, schrieb Alex-P. Natsios:
> >Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> >>Given the option's name, it might do more than just allow underscores in
> >>names.
> >>So it would be prudent to investigate a bit whether this might introduce a
> >>possible new attack vector.
> >
> >Finally +1 for Ingo's comment this needs further investigation before
> >becoming a default
> >(i still prefer easy GUI access to enable/disable it rather than
> >having it default though as Julian suggested in a later reply)
>
> I am rather convinced that this is exactly a kind of option that should not
> appear anywhere in Haiku's UI. Can you come up with use-cases where a
> generic user wants to be aware of this detail and configure it?
+1 to that. Whatever the RFCs says, people are using underscores in
their DNS records and/or hostnames, so we have no choice and must handle
it. I don't think anyone would want to disable it and cut himself from
parts of the internet.
--
Adrien.
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