problem with DNS lookups on non-IPv4-only-mode?

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Fri Jun 11 10:22:55 EST 2004


On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Dan Kaminsky wrote:

> It's totally an architectural problem, very much like that Cisco fault a 
> while back where unresolved packets in unassigned protocols would 
> eventually cause the entire system to fall over.  If one channel kills 
> the rest, there's an architectural fault.

I think you have a very different definition of "architectural": I mean 
that there is nothing in sshd's design that precludes implementation of 
this. The actual changes are fairly straightforward.

As always, someone interested just needs to do the work.

-d




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