Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Specific treatment of Class C addresses

2024-09-25 Thread Simon Kelley
Downsides to this proposed change. 1) Old versions of Windows might break. 2) Newer versions of windows might break - we've not done testing on which do and don't. 3) Other platforms which have made the same mistake might break. 4) Dnsmasq installations which unkowningly rely on this behaviour

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [PATCH 1/1] forward.c: fix handling of truncated response

2024-09-25 Thread Simon Kelley
I think that this is legitimate behaviour. RFC 2181 para 9 says Where TC is set, the partial RRSet that would not completely fit may be left in the response. When a DNS client receives a reply with TC set, it should ignore that response, and query again, using a mechanism, such as a

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Specific treatment of Class C addresses

2024-09-25 Thread Wink Saville
Sorry for the noise, but it should have been: Based on the analysis below, IMO it's not worth it. On Wed, Sep 25, 2024, 04:13 Wink Saville wrote: > Based on the analysis below it's not > IMO it's not worth it. > > Also, the KB has been deleted by > Microsoft. Here[1] is a link to an archived >

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Specific treatment of Class C addresses

2024-09-25 Thread Wink Saville
Based on the analysis below it's not IMO it's not worth it. Also, the KB has been deleted by Microsoft. Here[1] is a link to an archived version of that article. [1]:https://mskb.pkisolutions.com/kb/281579 On Wed, Sep 25, 2024, 02:31 Simon Kelley wrote: > Downsides to this proposed change. >

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Specific treatment of Class C addresses

2024-09-25 Thread Jan Ceuleers
On 25/09/2024 11:06, Simon Kelley wrote: > Downsides to this proposed change. > > 1) Old versions of Windows might break. > 2) Newer versions of windows might break - we've not done testing on > which do and don't. > 3) Other platforms which have made the same mistake might break. > 4) Dnsmasq inst