localhost name lookup

[Petr Špaček]

On 15. 01. 25 19:55, Lee wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM Ondřej Surý <ondrej at isc.org> wrote:
>> On 14. 1. 2025, at 16:56, Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In other words, should I submit a bug report to the Debian bind
>> maintainers or ISC?
>>
>>
>> With both my ISC and Debian hats on, I am going to be very frank
>> and say this has a very low priority, so unless you actually want to
>> work on this and submit a solid correct patch with a good reasoning,
>> there's probably nobody that is going to work on this.
> 
> I appreciate the honesty, but I think I'm missing something?
> 
> The good reasoning part would be quoting the RFC and the solid correct
> patch would be stripping out everything except the two line change I
> made to my db.local in the original post.

Unfortunately not quite, BIND does not ship with any zone files. It 
would have to be code change to implement
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.3
inside BIND codebase, something similar to empty zones.

(Or, refactor codebase to pull all special zones from files, which is 
... well ... somewhat larger change.)

Perhaps in packages it would be easier (albeit limited impact), but I 
don't maintain any of them myself.

> Is anything else required other than formatting the [implicit] change
> as a patch?
> 
>> The itch to scratch here isn't particularly bothering.
> 
> I understand.  Where do I submit the patch?

Please start with
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

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Petr Špaček
Internet Systems Consortium