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Use SOCK_DNS extension on socket on OpenBSD - #659
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Interesting. That said, the manpage, https://man.openbsd.org/socket.2 doesn't say SOCK_DNS is limited to UDP. DNS will upgrade from UDP to TCP if it gets back a DNS response with the 'TC' bit set indicating the response was truncated due to UDP packet size limitations. Are you sure SOCK_DNS is really limited to UDP? It wouldn't make sense that it would be. |
This patch added the SOCK_DNS flag when running on OpenBSD. Allowing a reduced set of pledge(2) promises. Before this patch. The "stdio rpath inet" promises must be used in order to resolve any records. After the patch. inet can be replaced with dns which only allows communication on destination port 53, instead of on all ports.
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You are right. I forgot that DNS can run over TCP. Description edited. I also force pushed to update my commit message |
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Seems reasonable. I'll merge after the 1.24.0 release which has already been staged. |
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As described in c-ares#753 the change merged with c-ares#659 is ill-advised and leads to breakage in applications using c-ares on OpenBSD. See also nodejs/node#52439
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As described in c-ares/c-ares#753 the change merged with c-ares/c-ares#659 is ill-advised and leads to breakage in applications using c-ares on OpenBSD. See also nodejs/node#52439
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As described in c-ares/c-ares#753 the change merged with c-ares/c-ares#659 is ill-advised and leads to breakage in applications using c-ares on OpenBSD. See also nodejs/node#52439
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As described in c-ares#753 the change merged with c-ares#659 is ill-advised and leads to breakage in applications using c-ares on OpenBSD. See also nodejs/node#52439
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As described in c-ares#753 the change merged with c-ares#659 is ill-advised and leads to breakage in applications using c-ares on OpenBSD. See also nodejs/node#52439
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As described in c-ares#753 the change merged with c-ares#659 is ill-advised and leads to breakage in applications using c-ares on OpenBSD. See also nodejs/node#52439
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As described in c-ares#753 the change merged with c-ares#659 is ill-advised and leads to breakage in applications using c-ares on OpenBSD. See also nodejs/node#52439
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This patch added the SOCK_DNS flag when running on OpenBSD. Allowing a reduced set of pledge(2) promises. Before this patch. The "stdio rpath inet" promises must be used in order to resolve any records. After the patch.
inetcan be replaced withdnswhich only allows communication on destination port 53, instead of on all ports.Side note: I checked the OpenBSD kernel source code. Even though the socket document says
the DNS port (typically 53)., The OpenBSD 7.4 kernel only allows 53. Not sure why they say typically.