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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2017-07-01 00:53:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2017-07-03 21:01:42 +0200 |
| commit | 3f853f22c87f0b671c0366eb290919719fa56c0e (patch) | |
| tree | 23f8835838728d4be3efca524754c1a2f5bb0396 /NEWS | |
| parent | f30a54b21b83f254533c59ca72ad17af5249c6be (diff) | |
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resolv: Lift domain search list limits [BZ #19569] [BZ #21475]
This change uses the extended resolver state in struct resolv_conf to store the search list. If applications have not patched the _res object directly, this extended search list will be used by the stub resolver during name resolution.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index df6f394180..bf2b5dfa18 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -237,6 +237,14 @@ Version 2.26 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been exported by accident. +* The glibc DNS stub resolver now supports an arbitary number of search + domains (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf). + Most applications will automatically benefit from this change, but for + backwards compatibility reasons, applications which directly modify _res + objects (which contain the resolver state, including the search list + array, which is limited to six entries) will only use the first six search + domains, as before. + Security related changes: * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes, |