> On Jul 26, 2017, at 10:29 AM, u-hd-p...@aetey.se wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 08:45:17AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Viktor Dukhovni <heim...@dukhovni.org> writes: >>> 2. Look up same name in DNS, return address(es) if found >> >>> instead, in step 2, we may get undesirable, incorrect and/or costly >>> interactions with the stub resolver's domain search list. The name in >>> the SRV record is an FQDN and MUST NOT be subject to RES_DEFNAMES or >>> RES_DNSRCH. The getaddrinfo(3) API provides no means to signal that a >>> name should not be subjected to the DNS search list. >> >> Ah! Thank you. That helps me understand the problem you're trying to >> solve. > > +1 > > Then the explicit trailing dots in /etc/hosts look indeed > like a reasonable trade-off. > > Rune
Actually, isn’t the trailing dot just a red herring? The RR is guaranteed to return a name which has an A/AAAA record, therefore no search list will be exercised. <pun>period!</pun> The first lookup must succeed, by design. Personal email. hbh...@oxy.edu
