[Dnsmasq-discuss] Filtering non-latin1 or non-ASCIII dns requests?

[imnozi at gmail.com]

On Wed, 10 May 2023 21:12:40 -0500
"B at us" <burton at burtonstrauss.us> wrote:

> I realize this breaks many standards. But the reality for most small
> installations is we have no real business visiting sites with non-ASCII
> domain names. I'm thinking of protecting against the Greek "α" which looks a
> lot like the letter "a".
> 
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> 
> Is there an easy way to translate domains that don't match \.[A-Za-z0-9]\.
> to 127.0.0.1?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks!
> 

I believe this is not a feature of stock dnsmasq. However, there is a patch available that should apply to dnsmasq v2.89. See https://github.com/lixingcong/dnsmasq-regex if you wish to build a custom version of dnsmasq.

Neal