As per RFC6761 Section 6.3, "localhost" lookups need to be special cased to return loopback addresses, and not forward queries to recursive dns servers.
We first look up via files (/etc/hosts or equivalent), and if that fails, we then attempt a system-specific address enumeration for loopback addresses (currently Windows-only), and finally fallback to ::1 and 127.0.0.1.
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
Fixes Bug: #399
When cross compiling with yocto's meta-mingw layer, getting a dependency
error.
This is caused by the fact that advapi32 is lower case in mingw builds.
Fix By: Sinan Kaya <sinan.kaya@microsoft.com>
RANDOM_FILE was never defined by cmake, causing RC4 key generation to use the less secure rand() method.
Also, due to clashes with chain-building from other projects (e.g. curl) that may define RANDOM_FILE, this was renamed to CARES_RANDOM_FILE.
This is the proposed change for #396
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
It appears that when building tests, it would hardcode enabling building
of the c-ares static library. This was probably due to Windows limitations
in symbol visibility.
This change will use the static library if it exists for tests, always.
Otherwise, it will only forcibly enable static libraries for tests on
Windows.
Fixes: #380
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
Originally started by Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) with #123, this patch reorganizes the c-ares source tree to have a more modern layout. It also fixes out of tree builds for autotools, and automatically builds the tests if tests are enabled. All tests are passing which tests each of the supported build systems (autotools, cmake, nmake, mingw gmake). There may be some edge cases that will have to be caught later on for things I'm not aware of.
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
The rc4 function iterates over a buffer of size buffer_len who's maximum
value is INT_MAX with a counter of type short that is not guaranteed to
have maximum size INT_MAX.
In circumstances where short is narrower than int and where buffer_len
is larger than the maximum value of a short, it may be possible to loop
infinitely as counter will overflow and never be greater than or equal
to buffer_len.
The solution is to make the comparison be between types of equal width.
This commit defines counter as an int.
Fix By: Fionn Fitzmaurice (@fionn)
Brad House
Daniel Stenberg
Biswapriyo Nath
Sinan Kaya
Felix Yan
Anton Danielsson
dhrumilrana
Fionn Fitzmaurice