Lookup answer depends on query source

Kevin Darcy kcd at chrysler.com
Tue Oct 14 23:24:57 UTC 2008


Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:14:19PM +0800,
>  Jing Cao <caojingnju at gmail.com> wrote 
>   
>> Will the DNS resolver tell the DNS who is in fact request the name
>> translation?
>>     
>
> No. This could be regarded as a big privacy breach.
>   
If implemented crudely, yes.

But, there's no "breach", is there?, if the source-address of the 
"client" is, regardless of proxies, NAT, etc. the same address from 
which the target webserver ultimately sees the HTTP requests originate.

- Kevin



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