[ds6-devel] privoxy, how to prevent much unusable AAAA DNS queries - solved

[Dr. Peter Bieringer]

--On Freitag, 6. Juni 2003 14:47 +0200 "Dr. Peter Bieringer" 
<pb at bieringer.de> wrote:

> But I have a question:
>
> How can I prevent privoxy from doing so much unusable AAAA queries?
>
> Preface:
> Host running privoxy has an /etc/resolv.conf with 3 search domains
> specified. On each new host request, privoxy tries to resolv (example
> here):
>
> AAAA www.domain.tld. -> NXDOMAIN
> AAAA www.domain.tld.searchdom1. -> NXDOMAIN
> AAAA www.domain.tld.searchdom2. -> NXDOMAIN
> AAAA www.domain.tld.searchdom3. -> NXDOMAIN
> A www.domain.tld. -> IPv4 address
>
> same happen on using telnet, but only on
>  telnet www.domain.tld 80
> not on
>  telnet www.domain.tld. 80

my colleague Harald Geiger found a poor-mans-solution ;-):

Adjust initscript like below:

 start () {
         # start daemon
         echo -n $"Starting $PRIVOXY_PRG: "
      if [ -f $PRIVOXY_PID ]; then
         killproc $PRIVOXY_PRG && rm -f $PRIVOXY_LOCK $PRIVOXY_PID
         RETVAL=$?
         [ $RETVAL != 0 ] && return $RETVAL
      fi
+        export LOCALDOMAIN="."
         daemon $PRIVOXY
         RETVAL=$?
         echo
         [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch $PRIVOXY_LOCK
         return $RETVAL


	Peter
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