Re: Bug#773443: host.conf.5: spoof deprecated ?

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Hello Stéphane,

On 10 March 2015 at 00:26, Stéphane Aulery <saulery@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> Le lundi 09 mars 2015 à 10:03:09, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit :
>> On 03/09/2015 08:59 AM, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
>> > Le lundi 09 mars 2015 à 08:22:01, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit :
>> >>
>> >> On 03/08/2015 02:05 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> A Debian user reported that [1]:
>> >>>
>> >>>> spoof* keywords (nospoof, spoofalert, spoof) are here from 1996,
>> >>>> they are still valid keywords but do not have any effect apparently,
>> >>>> no libraries or tools use them
>> >>>>
>> >>>> it is misleading to see references to resolv+ and rlogin, the keywords
>> >>>> are just ignored these days; the only meaning they have is that they
>> >>>> are
>> >>>> allowed by host.conf syntax
>> >>>
>> >>> The glibc source code seems to confirm that the keywords nospoof,
>> >>> spoofalert and spoof are accepted but without effects. I could find
>> >>> nothing in the changelog. Could you please confirm that they are
>> >>> obsolete? I could correct the man page accordingly.
>> >>
>> >> I had a quick grep in the glibc source code.
>> >>
>> >> It appears that you (and the reporter) are correct. (Even back in
>> >> glibc 2.1, things look the same).
>> >>
>> >> A patch would be appreciated!
>
> I dug a little further comparing versions 2.0.6 [1], 2.0.7 [2]
> and trunk [3] of glibc and I come to a different conclusion.
>
> The keywords nospoof, spoofalert, spoof and RESOLV_SPOOF_CHECK were
> added to glibc 2.0.7 but never implemented and documented in the
> changelog.

Perfect -- that's exactly the sort of detail it's great to have in man-pages!

Cheers,

Michael


> [1] http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.0.6.tar.gz
> [2] http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/main/source/libs/glibc_2.0.7t.orig.tar.gz
> [3] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=spoof&sr=1
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Stéphane Aulery



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