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Bug #10747

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DNS resolution should fall back to TCP on Errno::EACCES

Added by a13m (Andy Grimm) about 9 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
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[ruby-core:67636]

Description

On some platforms, users may be restricted from global binding to a UDP port, which is necessary for UDP-based DNS lookups. In this case, an exception like the following is currently raised:

ruby -r resolv -e 'puts Resolv.getaddress "www.ruby-lang.org"'
resolv.rb:655:in bind': Permission denied - bind(2) (Errno::EACCES) resolv.rb:655:in bind_random_port'
resolv.rb:791:in initialize' resolv.rb:560:in new'
resolv.rb:560:in make_udp_requester' resolv.rb:513:in each_resource'
resolv.rb:406:in each_address' resolv.rb:115:in block in each_address'
resolv.rb:114:in each' resolv.rb:114:in each_address'
resolv.rb:92:in getaddress' resolv.rb:43:in getaddress'

This error should be caught, and the resolver should fall back to TCP, as it does in other cases where this is necessary. A possible patch for this (written against 2.0.0p353 in RHEL) is attached.

Ideally, it would also be nice to be able to specify tcp by default when initializing a DNS object on such platforms, to avoid repeated bind attempts which are known to fail, but I am not sure of the best way to introduce such an option.


Files

resolver-force-tcp.patch (830 Bytes) resolver-force-tcp.patch patch to fall back to TCP when Errno::EACCES is caught a13m (Andy Grimm), 01/16/2015 07:26 PM
resolv-tcp-fallback-eacces.patch (1.19 KB) resolv-tcp-fallback-eacces.patch jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans), 07/08/2019 01:54 AM
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