[Dnsmasq-discuss] [patch] Option to remove A-forA

Mattias Hellström hellstrom.mattias at gmail.com
Fri Jan 26 18:17:31 GMT 2018


On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk>
wrote:

> On 25/01/18 15:03, Mattias Hellström wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have made a patch to disable the A-for-A feature.
> > I believe that the text portions can be made better by an actual DNS
> expert.
> >
>
> There are no downsides to doing A-for-A, as far as I know. If this
> feature is still doing some good, it should be left. If it's obsolete,
> it should be entirely removed, that way we gain a small codesize and
> support reduction, instead of increasing both.
>

In that case, removing it completely is the best choice in my opinion.
The source of these requests was patched out man many years ago.
And any new sources probably want a proper NXDOMAIN in return.
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