Dig 9.9 FORMERR with NetWare

[Mark Andrews]

In message <51803FD2.3070302 at Users.SourceForge.Net>, Pascal writes:
> Dig 9.9 consistently gives me "FORMERR" against NetWare DNS servers. 
> Previous versions worked fine.  Suggestions on how to figure out if the 
> bug is in Dig or NetWare?
> 
> -Pascal

BIND 9.9 dig turns on EDNS by default.  You really should be asking
why 172.31.123.6 doesn't suppport EDNS nearly 14 years after it was
specified (RFC 2671 August 1999).

Add +noedns to the command line to disable EDNS.

Mark

> O:\Documents and Settings\admin\dig>dig www.alarmspecs.com @172.31.123.6
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-P2 <<>> www.alarmspecs.com @172.31.123.6
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49616
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.alarmspecs.com.            IN      A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.alarmspecs.com.     3600    IN      CNAME   alarmspecs.com.
> alarmspecs.com.         3600    IN      A       173.212.225.56
> 
> ;; Query time: 203 msec
> ;; SERVER: 172.31.123.6#53(172.31.123.6)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Apr 16 20:24:24 2013
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 66
> 
> 
> O:\Documents and Settings\admin\dig>cd 9.9.2-P2
> 
> O:\Documents and Settings\admin\dig\9.9.2-P2>dig www.alarmspecs.com 
> @172.31.123.6
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> www.alarmspecs.com @172.31.123.6
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: FORMERR, id: 47614
> ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 0, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; Query time: 0 msec
> ;; SERVER: 172.31.123.6#53(172.31.123.6)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Apr 16 20:24:29 2013
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 12
> 
> 
> O:\Documents and Settings\admin\dig\9.9.2-P2>
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