bind bug? Servers loosing all but 1 ns record

D. J. Bernstein 75628121832146-bind at sublist.cr.yp.to
Tue Jan 9 04:26:49 UTC 2001


http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/bugtraq/20000112082807-15140-qmail@cr-yp-to
explains one way that glue can be destroyed, thanks to BIND's bogus
``credibility'' mechanism and a minor BIND bug.

Kevin Darcy writes:
> Looks like ns1.sonic.net is violating RFC 2181 here, which specifies that
> nameservers must not hand out partial RRsets.

No. There are many problems here, but that isn't one of them. The glue
records for ns1.atomic-ether.net and ns2.atomic-ether.net are not part
of the same record set.

---Dan



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