From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 16 11:17: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E436637B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9622943E42 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 777192A7F2 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B744C285 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE9A03927; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Patrick Thomas Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: resolver workaround conceptually possible ? In-Reply-To: <20020716110540.N79469-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:16:58 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020716181658.CE9A03927@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick Thomas wrote: > > I am under the impression that at this time there is no workaround for the > resolver problem - you are forced to reinstall or upgrade. > > I am curious though, is it at least conceptually possible that there could > be a workaround ? If so, what would it entail ? Assuming that bind9 has been fixed, you could use bind9 for your local resolver and it will "filter" anything nasty out as a side effect of the fact that it always constructs replies, rather than caching a reply and forwarding the reply as-is to the resolver client (as bind8 does). Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message