In message <alpine.osx.2.11.1612142258160.5...@ary.qy>, "John R Levine" writes:
> > I was under the impression that .homenet is handled entirely within the
> > DNS resolver of the Homenet router, which combines:
> >
> > - an authoritative DNS server for .homenet;
> > - a hybrid mDNS proxy;
> > - a recursive DNS resolver for the rest of the namespace.
>
> So far so good. The problem is a (largely hypothetical at this point)
> stub resolver that wants to do DNSSEC verification of the results the
> router gives it.
Lots of machines already do
forwarder { list of servers from DHCP; };
forward only;
automatically and those servers have a DNSSEC validation enabled.
This isn't a hypothetical problem.
Mark
> R's,
> John
>
> >> On the computers I know, the stub resolver is in one shared library and
> >> the SOCKS proxy is in another. What's the difference?
> >
> > The SOCKS library uses a completely different data transport (one that is
> > circuit-switched and layered over TCP), with very different capabilities
> > from the usual packet-switched transport.
>
> Of course, but from the point of view of a SOCKS client, either way it
> gives it a name and a port, and it gets back a two-way data stream. If
> you don't happen to be using a web proxy or ToR, the SOCKS library does
> essentially nothing.
>
> > Adding support for mDNS to the stub resolver makes no change to the way
> > the actual data is pushed around.
>
> Sure it does -- the .local queries do one thing and the others do another.
> Not unlike with SOCKS the .onion opens do one thing and the others do
> another. But this is utterly tangential to the argument about resolvers
> that might want to do DNSSEC validation of .homenet results.
>
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