Re: Bug#182886: libc6: local hostnames containing a dot get forwarded outside when doing host-lookups.
At Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:18:02 +0100,
Bernhard R. Link <brl@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> * Vassilii Khachaturov <vassilii@tarunz.org> [030228 21:58]:
> > > Thanks, I missed that. Being placed unter "internal variables" and
> > > "debug" seems to have tricked me in ignoring this part.
> > >
> > > There should at least be a sentence "search" to indicate that one has
> > > to read the ndots-part to get a real search-path.
>
> I've tested this some people by letting them open resolv.conf and
> describing the problem. Noone found anything until they were told
> to look for "options ndots". I suggest adding something like the
> following to the manpage:
>
> --- resolv.conf.5.orig Sun Mar 2 18:10:44 2003
> +++ resolv.conf.5 Sun Mar 2 18:34:38 2003
> @@ -72,8 +72,14 @@
> This may be changed by listing the desired domain search path
> following the \fIsearch\fP keyword with spaces or tabs separating
> the names.
> -Most resolver queries will be attempted using each component
> +Resolver queries having less than
> +.B ndots
> +dots (default is 1) in them will be attempted using each component
> of the search path in turn until a match is found.
> +For environments with multiple subdomains please read
> +.B options ndots:n
> +below to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks and unnecessary
> +traffic for the root-dns-servers.
> Note that this process may be slow and will generate a lot of network
> traffic if the servers for the listed domains are not local,
> and that queries will time out if no server is available
>
>
> I think this should fix the problem of misleading documentation.
Fixing inappropriate description is everytime fine. resolv.conf.5
is in manpages package, so could I reassign this bug to manpages?
Regards,
-- gotom
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