Subject: Re: EDNS0 support in resolver
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/02/2000 15:53:08
Do you fall back to non-edns0 if you get FORMERR?
--Michael
itojun@iijlab.net writes:
> Since we support IPv6 transport DNS queries in libc resolver,
> I think we should support EDNS0 to take advantage of larger minimum
> MTU. Does it sound right to bring it in before 1.5, switchable by
> "options edns0" on /etc/resolv.conf? (since BIND4/8 chokes with
> EDNS0, we should make it off by default - BIND9 works just fine)
>
> We have some code in
> http://www.kame.net/dev/cvsweb.cgi/kame/kame/kame/libinet6/resolv/
> (check #ifdef RES_USE_EDNS0 in res_*.c)
>
> itojun