Re: [lwip-users] DNS look-up with domain search

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On 12.11.2018 00:26, Craig McQueen wrote:
> I'm interested in doing DNS look-ups that possibly include a domain search list.

I'm interested in that, too, but haven't found the time yet. There's 
task #14129 ("DNS: implement domain search list (e.g. filled via DHCP)") 
to remind us...

> I'm successfully using LWIP_HOOK_DHCP_APPEND_OPTIONS() and 
> LWIP_HOOK_DHCP_PARSE_OPTION() to get a domain from DHCP via DHCP option 15.
>
> Now I'm interested in possibly using that as a search domain. So if doing a look-up for "server", and DHCP option 15 
> specifies domain "example.com", then DNS could do a search for "server.example.com". But not if the original 
> look-up name includes a trailing dot. If the original name includes a trailing dot, e.g. "server.com.", then it 
> wouldn't try "server.com.example.com".
>
> Note that the current functions in dns.c will fail a DNS look-up given a string 
> that ends with a trailing dot. Technically is this correct or incorrect? See 
> the following which discusses trailing dots in domain names:
> http://www.dns-sd.org/trailingdotsindomainnames.html

Looks like we are missing this dot at the end. Noone has complained 
until now, but when implementing search lists, we probably should care 
for the dot at the end...

Simon