At 23:37 -0700 10/11/06, Stephen Casner wrote:
connect to 127.0.0.1 on the forwarded port number. I don't know why, but Pine does a DNS lookup on 127.0.0.1. My problems arose when the
Sounds like an application layer implementation defect. The problem could be solved by reporting the bug to the developers.
Of course I am against "fraud" of any kind, but I don't see the IETF having a hand in this issue. Outside of explaining that the problem lies in that the DNS query does not convey the intent of the query (like, "it's to get a web page"), there isn't a much of a role to play.
Ironically - in the past year, the DNSOP WG considered a proposal called "white lies" in which falsified negative answers were to be used to prevent someone from using DNSSEC records to discover all of the contents of a zone. "Falsified" became "synthesized" and at least one RFC got produced (http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4471.txt).
There's a fine line between record synthesis and fraud.[0] We can talk about the synthesis, but fraud isn't a technical issue.
[0] Derived from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/stevenwrig105995.html.
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