[Dnsmasq-discuss] Problems with SRV Queries

[Simon Kelley]

Edson wrote:
> Yeap... it worked... thanks for the quick return...
> 
> But now I'm asking me why should I use "filterwin2k" parm... if it was
> thinked to help on windows environment, but it blocks SRV request, it seams
> that this is an undesired side-effect... with all SIP and VoIP stuff
> around...

filterwin2k blocks the stuff which windows can produce which is not 
relevant on public DNS servers, that includes SRV queries. It's a bit of 
a hack.

> 
> Shouldn't this behavior (SRV blocking) being a separate parm? 

The best fix is not to have filterwin2k in the default configuration.
The distributed example configuration and the Debian package changed 
this some time ago, but some of the other distros may not have done the 
same thing.

Cheers,

Simon.

> 
> Edson.
> 
>