Re: [PATCH] mDNS support

On 25/05/2013 4:51 a.m., Amos Jeffries wrote:
> The last outstanding reason to retain dnsserver component in Squid
> seems to be lack of mDNS support in our client resolver. This patch
> seeks to close that hole and add mDNS support to the Squid internal
> DNS resolver.
>
> * adds the mDNS multicast group IPs as always-present entries in the
> nameservers list.
>
> * filters each request. ".local" lookups are permitted to both the
> mDNS resolvers and the recursive resolvers, other requests are only
> permitted to the regular recursive resolvers.
>
> I have not done much testing of this yet. However the DNS protocol
> operations are completely unchanged, and the only questions are
> whether the nameservers responses are accepted back into Squid or
> prevented by the ignore_unknown_nameservers option (or not) - that
> depends on the mDNS responses. And whether the mDNS produces NXDOMAIN
> in a useful way for Squid.
>

In absence of any objections this is applied as trunk rev.12879

Amos
Received on Sun Jun 02 2013 - 11:49:25 MDT