On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:32:53PM -0400, Jason Giglio wrote:
This bug is in SuSe, Debian, every version of Red Hat I tested.
Looks like the stub resolver in glibc. Permutation order should be
hostname over AFI, not AFI over hostname, agreed.
So the correct query sequence should be:
- AAAA
host.domain.com.
- A
host.domain.com.
- AAAA host.
- A host.
That middle query is causing bogus root DNS server traffic every time
someone sshs to an unqualified hostname within their LAN.
Nod.
SSH people won't take responsibility for this bug.
They are correct. It's not their fault.
They do, did you test as Florian asked you?
Regards,
Daniel
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