Bug 14003

Summary: Knot Resolver does not support hostnames in forward rules
Product: IPFire Reporter: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer>
Component: ---Assignee: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: - Unknown -    
Priority: - Unknown - CC: stefan.schantl
Version: 2   
Hardware: unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 13972    

Description Michael Tremer 2026-06-01 09:37:38 UTC
This is kind of annoying since we have been supporting this before and it is also very handy:

> Jun  1 10:20:47 fw01 kresd[12759]: [system] error while loading config: /usr/lib/knot-resolver/kres_modules/policy.lua:53: target 'fra.lwldns.net" is not a valid IP address (workdir '/run/
knot-resolver')
Comment 1 Michael Tremer 2026-07-08 13:44:24 UTC
This cannot be solved as Knot Resolver does not support this and has been mentioned in the changelog:

> https://www.ipfire.org/blog/ipfire-2-29-core-update-203-is-available-for-testing