A few OTHER DNS request type after 5.1

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Expected Behaviour:

All DNS query type should fall into RFC types. Not understand what OTHER type means.

Actual Behaviour:

After upgraded to 5.1, saw a few DNS request type as OTHER.

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Debug token:

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Please suggest is this expected behaviour? Thanks.

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Yes it is. Other is everything that is not:

  • A ,
  • AAAA ,
  • ANY ,
  • SRV ,
  • SOA ,
  • PTR ,
  • TXT ,
  • NAPTR
  • MX ,
  • DS ,
  • RRSIG ,
  • DNSKEY
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Looking at the code, these "other" queries were simply not shown before. They likely happened before as well. Please go to your /var/log/pihole.log and check of which type these queries actually were.

The possible range of types is a short, i.e. it can be anything between 0 and 65535. I don't expect them to code the string relations A, AAAA, ... for all of them (even if many are unused).

Is this necessary? Even if so, the appearance of OTHER is a new feature. Not a bug. Not at all.

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Thanks.
The pihole.log shows type=65479.
Probably because my iPhone is on iOS 14 beta.

5

Yes, for reference for others:

So this is expected, how should Pi-hole improve on this? I don't think it is necessary to store this number in the database, etc.

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