How to force named to write dynamic data

[Bob Vance]

Thanks, Mark.

Yes, indeed, that fixed the problem with "\032" (space)
(and with "\064" and  "\046", as well :)


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-----Original Message-----
From: marka at nominum.com [mailto:marka at nominum.com]On Behalf Of
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 4:04 AM
To: BVance at sbm.com
Cc: sbm-BIND-L (E-mail)
Subject: Re: How to force named to write dynamic data



	The following should fix the problem.

	Fixing problems like this was one of the design goals of
	BIND 9.  BIND 8 has way too many places parsing both wire
	and text input.  BIND 9 has one set of routines.

	Mark

Index: src/bin/named/ns_update.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /proj/cvs/isc/bind8/src/bin/named/ns_update.c,v
retrieving revision 8.88
diff -u -r8.88 ns_update.c
--- ns_update.c	2000/12/23 08:14:43	8.88
+++ ns_update.c	2001/01/14 08:58:39
@@ -2340,7 +2340,7 @@
 				break;
 			}
 			/* Owner's domain name. */
-			if (!getword((char *)dnbuf, sizeof dnbuf, fp, 0)) {
+			if (!getword((char *)dnbuf, sizeof dnbuf, fp, 1)) {
 				err++;
 				break;
 			}

> I've tracked the problem down.
> It requires the following:
>
>   1. 'nsupdate' name has encoded blanks, "\032"
>   2. kill -9 <named>
>      after the dynamic update
>   3. restart 'named' and let it load from the *.log files
>
>    (I know you'll say quit worrying about blanks, but if we're
>     gonna try to handle them, then we should do it correctly.
>    )
>
>
> The problem appears to be a bug in 'named' reloading info from the log
> files after a restart *if* the name has encoded blanks in it, "\032"
>    %~/
> It drops the "\" from the "\032" *without* decoding it into a blank,
> simply leaving a "032" .