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| author | Gerhard Sittig <gsi@denx.de> | 2014-09-12 08:48:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> | 2014-09-16 12:24:00 -0400 |
| commit | f395e75e27323cc1ef060f640d0d535ed50e705d (patch) | |
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net: dns: fix for DNS queries sent to the wrong MAC address
When a DNS query is sent out, the ethernet packet can get directed to
the MAC address of a server that was communicated to before. This is
wrong when the previously stored MAC address corresponds to a different
server's IP address, i.e. when the IP address of the previous and the
current communication are different.
The error can get reproduced by running a sequence of e.g. a TFTP
download and a DNS query, where the TFTP and DNS servers reside on
individual machines.
The fix is to clear the server's MAC address that might be left from a
previous operation, and to fetch the peer's MAC address in a new ARP
lookup, before the DNS query is sent. This is the approach taken in
other network services, like 8e52533d1095 ("net: tftpsrv: Get correct
client MAC address").
Reported-by: Dirk Zimoch <dirk.zimoch@psi.ch>
Signed-off-by: Gerhard Sittig <gsi@denx.de>
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