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Re: DNS source ip support for glibc gethostbyname API
* Babu Prasad:
>> On Fri, May 24, 2019, 17:07 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> * Babu Prasad:
>>
>> > could you please tell me that are we(glibc) supporting DNS
>> > source ip as part of our DNS ip resolution. ie as part gethostbyname is
>> > there any option which can carry my source ip also since there is a
>> > requirement as part of PBR.
>>
>> Do you mean support for RFC 7871 (Client Subnet in DNS Queries)?
> Hi Florian, Thanks for responding, yes you are right. RFC 7871 support
> is one application, but this can be extended for my case also.
Our position is that this scenario is best handled by a local DNS
resolver running on the same host. The scope of possible policies
related to this feature is rather large.
Thanks,
Florian