From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 20:51:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB8B37B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from fe3.cox-internet.com (fe3-cox.cox-internet.com [66.76.2.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89A7443F93 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daved@nostrum.com) Received: from nostrum.com ([208.180.29.144]) by fe3.cox-internet.com 9a2f9096933fa391a6c2fc942f8b01bd) with ESMTP id <20030326045141.TMVL20598.fe3@nostrum.com>; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:51:41 -0600 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:51:44 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) To: Mark.Andrews@isc.org From: David J Duchscher In-Reply-To: <200303260353.h2Q3rXpE028440@drugs.dv.isc.org> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-21.6 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 04:51:45 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 04:51:45 -0000 On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 09:53 PM, Mark.Andrews@isc.org wrote: > The current implementation fits this. It handles (accepts) > garbage in and only returns (generates) clean respones to > the application. > Which I would say it not the intention of what being 'generous on what you accept' to mean. IMHO, the maxim is to stop exactly what is happening. We are being restrictive on what we return to the application so things are breaking. I can't change the remote end so communication does not flow. From my perspective, you advocating being restrict on what you will accept and what you will send. > If the resolver died receiving underscore you would something > to complain about. Currently it just filters out ALL illegal > responses. I can't talk to some hosts on the internet because FreeBSD will not resolve the host name which over 99% of the host on the Internet will. I guess that just doesn't matter. DaveD