On 2022-01-01 Dominik Derigs <dl...@dl6er.de> wrote: > On Sat, 2022-01-01 at 16:27 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> The manpage says "The requests blocked are for records [...] >> where the requested name has underscores". The test-query shown >> above is not for a name with underscores. So, afaict not working >> as documented.
> you have removed relevant parts when quoting that changed > meaning. The man page says >> The requests blocked are for records of types SOA and SRV, and >> type ANY where the requested name has underscores, to catch LDAP >> requests. > where two parts are mentioned: >> records of types SOA and SRV, > and >> and type ANY where the requested name has underscores > I just checked the code. This is exactly what happens > SOA and SRV are always blocked, ANY only with underscores. To me, > this seems clear from the man text because of the first and > exclusively connecting SOA and SRV and then ANY + underscores > following thereafter. I considered this to be a possible reading but the preceding text said that the feature was for filtering out "requests which don't get sensible answers from the public DNS" and my brain refused to put any and all SRV requests in this box. ;-) > I see the man page wording could be improved. How about --------------- diff --git a/man/dnsmasq.8 b/man/dnsmasq.8 index 4de8969..96338b3 100644 --- a/man/dnsmasq.8 +++ b/man/dnsmasq.8 @@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ forged answer to a DNS request for certain domain, before the correct answer can Later versions of windows make periodic DNS requests which don't get sensible answers from the public DNS and can cause problems by triggering dial-on-demand links. This flag turns on an option -to filter such requests. The requests blocked are for records of types SOA and SRV, and type ANY where the -requested name has underscores, to catch LDAP requests. +to filter such requests. The requests blocked are for records of type ANY +where the requested name has underscores, to catch LDAP requests, and for +\fBall\fP records of types SOA and SRV. .TP .B --filter-A --------------- cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
