When deriving a domain name from an IPv6 address, an address
such as 1234:: would become 1234--.example.com, which is
not legal in IDNA2008. Stop using the :: compression method,
so 1234:: becomes
1234-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000.example.com
By design, dnsmasq forwards queries for RR-types it has no data
on, even if it has data for the same domain and other RR-types.
This can lead to an inconsitent view of the DNS when an upstream
server returns NXDOMAIN for an RR-type and domain but the same domain
but a different RR-type gets an answer from dnsmasq. To avoid this,
dnsmasq converts NXDOMAIN answer from upstream to NODATA answers if
it would answer a query for the domain and a different RR-type.
An oversight missed out --synth-domain from the code to do this, so
--synth-domain=thekelleys.org.uk,192.168.0.0/24
would result in the correct answer to an A query for
192-168.0.1.thekelleys.org.uk and an AAAA query for the same domain
would be forwarded upstream and the resulting NXDOMAIN reply
returned.
After the fix, the reply gets converted to NODATA.
Thanks to Matt Wong for spotting the bug.
This allows hosts get a domain which relects the interface they
are attached to in a way which doesn't require hard-coding addresses.
Thanks to Sten Spans for the idea.
This was the source of a large number of #ifdefs, originally
included for use with old embedded libc versions. I'm
sure no-one wants or needs IPv6-free code these days, so this
is a move towards more maintainable code.
