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    network: permit upstream forwarding of unqualified DNS names · 4f595ba6
    Laine Stump 提交于
    This resolves the issue that prompted the filing of
    
      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928638
    
    (although the request there is for something much larger and more
    general than this patch).
    
    commit f3868259 disabled the
    forwarding to upstream DNS servers of unresolved DNS requests for
    names that had no domain, but were just simple host names (no "."
    character anywhere in the name). While this behavior is frowned upon
    by DNS root servers (that's why it was changed in libvirt), it is
    convenient in some cases, and since dnsmasq can be configured to allow
    it, it must not be strictly forbidden.
    
    This patch restores the old behavior, but since it is usually
    undesirable, restoring it requires specification of a new option in
    the network config. Adding the attribute "forwardPlainNames='yes'" to
    the <dns> elemnt does the trick - when that attribute is added to a
    network config, any simple hostnames that can't be resolved by the
    network's dnsmasq instance will be forwarded to the DNS servers listed
    in the host's /etc/resolv.conf for an attempt at resolution (just as
    any FQDN would be forwarded).
    
    When that attribute *isn't* specified, unresolved simple names will
    *not* be forwarded to the upstream DNS server - this is the default
    behavior.
    4f595ba6
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