RES_INSECURE2 and OpenBSD's libresolv

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Tue Jun 18 23:51:36 UTC 2002


> Can somebody explain toy me what exactly RES_INSECURE2 does?  I had a
> setup where I needed to enable option insecure2 in /etc/resolv.conf
> (OpenBSD 3.1) in order for applications like ftp anf telnet to resolve
> CNAMEs.
> 
> Without insecure2 the machine could not resolve CNAMEs, with it could.
> So how does this option affrects resolving?

	Well if you need RES_INSECURE2 then your nameserver need to be
	upgraded.

	RES_INSECURE2 checks that the name in the answer matches
	that in the query.

	Mark

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