Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:20:37PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Bastien ROUCARIES 
> 
> | main security problem is resolver,
> | $host -v www.local
> | www.local
> | www.local.mydomain.com
> 
> So the security problem you see is that if you have a domain called
> «local» the entries in it might be spoofed due to how the resolver
> works?
> 
> To the extent this is a bug, it's a bug in the resolver that it does not
> treat names with dots in them as absolute, but relative.  I know this is
> how it's been done in the past, but perhaps changing that to treating
> names with as absolute would be a better solution.

echo >>resolv.conf options ndots:15

Ben.

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