Subject: RE: DNS servers on windows

RE: DNS servers on windows

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:41:25 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Bert Belder wrote:

> As a Node.js maintainer I also ran into this problem. Our solution was to
> ignore these fec0:: servers entirely
> (https://github.com/piscisaureus/cares/commit/f6cdd7d404d44eb2d6e8866e85ae65
> 1b89fc769e), and we've never had any complaints about it. I think pycares
> did the same. Placing these fake DNS servers at the end might be a good
> solution as well, I don't really have a strong opinion on that. However I
> would prefer to try the "real" servers in the order that windows reports
> them.

But these entries are there for some kind of purpose, right? Won't there be
systems that actually rely on their presense in that list to function
properly?

> Lastly I think it'd be good to filter the list of DNS servers and remove
> duplicate entries. If there's consensus that this is a good idea I can put
> together a patch that does this.

I can't see any benefit from having duplicates, no. Is this common?

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2013-04-23