[tcpdump-workers] Support for "-T domain"
Noah
noah.robin at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 12:22:09 EST 2015
No problem; would such a patch be eligible for backport to 4.7?
Regards,
Noah
> On Dec 3, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Noah <noah.robin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've written a small patch against HEAD which adds support for decoding
>> DNS traffic on nonstandard ports; useful for those of us who run DNS
>> serves behind VIPs, for instance. I haven't written any tests as yet,
>> however there aren't any DNS tests set up yet anyway. Happy to write
>> some if that would speed the inclusion of the update. I've committed
>> the patch to my fork of tcpdump on github, run tests, etc. How should
>> I proceed from here, just issue the pull request?
>
> Yes, but we'll want to see some tests.
> That we haven't any tests shouldn't stop you: tcpdump -w some packets that
> you don't mind sharing, on both port 53 and a not port 53. Add a list to
> tests/TESTLIST, without the -T domain, and you should of course, not see the
> non-port-53 decoded, and a line *with* -T domain, and you should see
> the not-port-53 packets decoded.
>
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