query ip address

[Tom Samplonius]

dnscache is a pretty weird.  From the webpage at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/dnscache.html ...


“dnscache handles dotted-decimal domain names internally, giving (e.g.) the domain name 192.48.96.2 an A record of 192.48.96.2."


So it looks like dnscache will return a the IP address back for any A queries for a IP address.  And it looks like it returns a basically infinite ttl.

Why do you need this behaviour?  I used to use dnscache many years ago, but dropped it when powerdns-recursor became available.  I never noticed this “feature”, and never had anything break when it went away.




> On Sep 13, 2017, at 1:17 PM, Joe Williams <williams.joe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply Tom, I wish I knew why as well.  Right now I am just trying to make my unbound config backwards compatible to not break code that expects an answer for an IP address.
> 
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Tom Samplonius <tom at samplonius.org <mailto:tom at samplonius.org>> wrote:
> 
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > 10.36.129.10.         655360  IN      A       10.36.129.10
> 
> 
>   Looking at this answer, I’m not sure why anyone would want this behaviour?
> 
>   Is dnscache trying to dampen RFC1918 A queries by doing this?
> 
> 
> Tom
> 

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