Re: Blocking of domain strings in iptables

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 12:34:45AM -0800,
 Jonathan Lassoff <jof () thejof com> wrote 
 a message of 88 lines which said:

> This is going to be tricky to do, as DNS packets don't necessarily
> contain entire query values or FQDNs as complete strings due to
> packet label compression

Apprently, the OP wanted to match the *question* in a *query* and
these are never compressed (they could, in theory, but are not).

> You can use those u32 module matches to find some known-bad packets
> if they're sufficiently unique, but it simply lacks enough logic to
> fully parse DNS queries.

u32's language is not Turing-complete but It is sufficient in the case
presented here.