[dns-operations] How should work name resolution on a modern system?

2022-06-10 Thread Petr Menšík
Hello DNS experts, I were thinking about requirements for future name resolution primarily on Linux desktop and servers. But if anyone could comment other systems and their design, I would be glad too. I would like to formulate requirements first and find a good way to implement them later.

Re: [dns-operations] How should work name resolution on a modern system?

2022-06-10 Thread George Michaelson via dns-operations
--- Begin Message --- I am very glad somebody is asking these questions. They're food for thought and go beyond strict DNS/53 (not that it IS 53 any more, so I mean "old school dns as protocols") to the wider question of name to locator mapping in a multiple service context, and the fracture of a

Re: [dns-operations] How should work name resolution on a modern system?

2022-06-10 Thread Fred Morris
I think those are good questions, I don't have a lot of unqualified opinions and less answers. On Fri, 10 Jun 2022, Petr Menšík wrote: I were thinking about requirements for future name resolution primarily on Linux desktop and servers. Ok. I don't like what systemd is doing, overall. I don't

Re: [dns-operations] How should work name resolution on a modern system?

2022-06-10 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 09:16:11PM +0200, Petr Menšík wrote: > - first is libc interface getaddrinfo() provided by nss plugins. Names > can be resolved also by different protocols than just DNS. A good > examples might be MDNS (RFC 6762), LLMNR (RFC 4795) or Samba > (nmblookup). Standardized ca