I have a situation for which extending those features would be the exact 
solution.

Dennis

On Jul 4, 2021 5:21 PM, Simon Kelley <si...@thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:
On 04/07/2021 21:32, Simon Kelley wrote:
> On 30/06/2021 10:40, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant wrote:
>> As an ‘experiment’ I tried switching from my own local ‘adblocking’ solution 
>> to using an upstream adblocking resolver, eg. cloudflare’s 1.1.1.2 or 
>> 1.1.1.3 service.
>>
>> The local adblock solution uses (multiple!) ‘—address/naughtydomain.foo/‘ 
>> lines that cause dnsmasq to return ’NXDOMAIN’ - fair enough.
>>
>> Cloudflare (& others I’ve tested) return ‘0.0.0.0’ or ‘::’ instead, not 
>> NXDOMAIN.  With rebind protection enabled (--stop-dns-rebind), even with 
>> --rebind-localhost-ok I get log ’spam’ warning of possible rebind attacks 
>> due to the ‘0.0.0.0’ address response.
>>
>> I can turn ‘0.0.0.0’ into NXDOMAIN by using --bogus-nxdomain=0.0.0.0 and 
>> that works fine and stops the rebind warnings.  However ‘::’ still gets 
>> through if an AAAA is specifically requested.  There is no equivalent 
>> bogus-nxdomain for ipv6.
>>
>> The dnsmasq manpage (under —address) advised "Note that NULL addresses 
>> [0.0.0.0 & ::] normally work in the same way as localhost, so beware that 
>> clients looking up these names are likely to end up talking to themselves.”  
>> Ideally then 0.0.0.0 & :: would both be turned into NXDOMAIN.
>>
>> Should ‘0.0.0.0/32’ be excluded from the rebind checks/accepted by the 
>> ‘—rebind-localhost-ok’ option.  It’s currently being caught by a ‘0.0.0.0/8’ 
>> check.
>>
>
> I looked at the code that determines private addresses for --bogus-priv
> and rebind: It's a bit unruly for IPv6, so I've rationalised things and
> included :: and 0.0.0.0 in the --rebind-localhost-ok coverage, which at
> least avoids the log spam.
>
>
> I wonder if bogus-nxdomain should be extended to IPv6, or we could add
> another option which is the equivalent of
>
> bogus-nxdomain=0.0.0.0,::
>
> Or both.
>
> Simon.
>

AT the least, bogus-nxdomain should be extended to IPv6, that would
extend --ignore-address too, for free.


In progress.

Simon.

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