wrong reverse dns answer, corrupted cache

Doug Barton DougB at DougBarton.net
Mon Jan 28 06:02:17 UTC 2002


Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:

>         The thing Doug has failed to mention is that he sees this on
>         servers *behind* a forwarder.  There is no "baliwick" when you
>         are behind a forwarder.
> 
>         BIND 8 prior to 8.2.5 would allow records to slip through in the
>         answer it sent on that it didn't cache.
> 
> 1232.   [bug]           don't assume the forwarder has dropped bogus records.
> 
> 1231.   [bug]           always restart a query if we dropped records when
>                         parsing.

	Well I certainly wasn't trying to be deceptive. :) I'm glad to hear
that 8.3 should have this bug fixed. I'll give it a try.

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