[Dnsmasq-discuss] Handling unknown RTYPEs and querying for version...

[Nicholas Weaver]

I'm one of the primary authors of Netalyzr (
http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu ).

One problem we test for that we see as absolutely endemic (>95% of the
cases tested) is NAT DNS proxies that can't handle unknown DNS
resource records.

RFC3597 specifically states how they should be handled (as opaque
binary data which is passed unchanged), but almost all fail to process
our request for a made-up type (type # 169).

a)  Could someone run Netalyzr against a NAT running the latest
Dnsmasq code and send me the result link?

b)  Are there various bugs/queries which can be done which would
indicate what version of Dnsmasq a gateway is running?