THe error is occurring in the IDN library which thinks that the name is illegal punycode.
$ dig r1---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com dig: 'r1---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com' is not a legal IDNA2008 name (string contains forbidden two hyphens pattern), use +noidnin There's a change in the upcoming 2.87 release which doesn't reject this. Cheers, Simon. On 14/01/2022 20:29, Anthony P. Kehoe via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: > Should probably state the version number: > > > > [root@Citadel dnsmasq.d]# rpm -aq|grep dnsmasq > > dnsmasq-2.86-3.fc34.x86_64 > > > > > > *From:*Anthony P. Kehoe > *Sent:* Friday 14 January 2022 13:22 > *To:* 'dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk' > <dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk> > *Subject:* Problem with address format > > > > Hi all, > > > > While trying to use a DNS blacklist, the address list contained entries > such as: > > > > r1---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com > > r2---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com > > r3---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com > > r4---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com > > r5---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com > > r6---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com > > r7---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com > > > > When trying to add these lines as: > > > > address=/<address>/ > > > > dnsmasq gives an error: > > > > [root@Citadel dnsmasq.d]# dnsmasq --test > > > > dnsmasq: error at line 1 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/black.list > > [root@Citadel dnsmasq.d]# head black.list > > address=/r1---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com/ > > address=/r2---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com/ > > address=/r3---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com/ > > address=/r4---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com/ > > address=/r5---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com/ > > address=/r6---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com/ > > address=/r7---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com/ > > address=/r8---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com/ > > address=/r9---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com/ > > address=/r10---sn-n4v7knlz.googlevideo.com/ > > > > It seems the config parser doesn’t like the three dashes in the DNS > address. Is this a known issue? > > > > Thanks, > > Anthony > > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss > _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
