On Mon, 25.01.16 17:11, Florian Weimer (fwei...@redhat.com) wrote: > On 01/25/2016 03:23 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mon, 25.01.16 09:08, Florian Weimer (fwei...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > >>> It is intended as a convenient fallback mechanism, and is only supposed > >>> to have an effect if 'gateway' is not defined in the local DNS (the > >>> 'domain' or 'search' zones). Would it help if those limitations were > >>> more explicit, e.g. documented in nss-myhostname(8)? > >> > >> I understand that the goal is that nss_myhostname will not override > >> existing names, due to the way the NSS is configured. > >> > >> What I do not understand is how the the “gateway” name can be > >> useful. > > > > Here's a very obvious, trivial example: wherever I am I can now simply > > type "ping gateway" to know whether connectivity to my local router > > works. > > But that's not actually true, isn't it? If nss_myhostname doesn't > override “gateway”, the outcome depends on the network you are on. With > a captive portal, you are likely pinging the portal server, not the > default gateway. And if you are on one of Microsoft's corporate > networks, you might end up at gateway.microsoft.com (whatever this > is).
Well, IRL you'd actually quickly notice, since ping shows you the full fqdn of the host, and hence gives you a very clear hint on what it is actually pinging. > Because it's so unreliable, we cannot put this trick into documentation, > and we shouldn't train users to rely on this functionality. Yeah, single-label names are like that. If you want trustable single-label names, you better shouldn't use search domains (and quite frankly, I am not particularly a fan of the search domain concept myself, because of its ambiguities. In systemd-resolved we by default ignore the DHCP-reported search domains because of this.) Note that systemd-resolved's LLMNR implementation actually excepts itself from resolving "gateway" even though a single-label name (it also excepts itself from a couple of other names, such as "localhost"). Which basically means: the "gateway" name is safe exactly when you turn off the search domain logic (or to put this correctly if networkd is used: it is safe unless you *turn on* the search domain logic). > Right. If software (or documentation) uses “gateway” to mean “address > of the default gateway”, it will break, depending on search path > configuration and other network properties. > > I don't think this is what Fedora wants (and what you intended). I disagree. It only breaks if the user enables domain search logic, and configures a domain in there that actually serves a host called "gateway". Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
