dirmngr logging confusion when trying to connect to a local keyserver (more reverse DNS?)
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Nov 13 15:43:14 CET 2017
On Mon 2017-11-13 15:17:49 +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 22:29, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
>
>> 2017-10-01 06:17:00 dirmngr[32208.6] DBG: dns: resolve_dns_name(127.0.0.1): Success
>> 2017-10-01 06:17:00 dirmngr[32208.6] can't connect to '127.0.0.1': no IP address for host
>
> Maybe a missing localhost entry in /etc/hosts? I can imagine that our
> libdns.c does not have a hardwired name for localhost. That would be
> easy to fix.
where do you imagine such a fix landing? in libdns.c ?
> The problem with libdns.c is that Justus and me tried hard to get our
> fixes upstream but never got any reply from the original author except
> for one message that he will look at them. Meanwhile I think it might
> be better to giveup on trying to get it upstream and keep on fixing
> problems ourself - which would include better documentaion of the code.
ouch, that sounds frustrating.
>> Also, why is dirmngr trying to look up names for addresses? i don't know
>> whether "resolve_dns_name" is A/AAAA lookup and "resolve_dns_addr" is
>
> So that we can return and store the hostname with a key.
I don't understand this. Why would a hostname be relevant to anyone,
given the configuration that the user asked for? Are you talking about
a cryptographic key or some other sort of key?
--dkg
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