ISC Bind as secondary to Windows Server: bad bitmap error on named xfer.

[Stoffel, John (TAI)]

Tony,
Thank you so much for your help!  Your suggestion to use Net::DNS really saved the day, because then I could do a brute force binary search to find the broken DNS record which was screwing me up.  Once I deleted that record, all was well in the world, and my AXFR transfers happened just fine.  

I owe you a beer or two.  Where in the UK are you located?  My mom was from Hudderfield (Go Terriers!!!!) Looks like you're in Cambridge for your email, I think I've got a contact there I could get to draw you a few pints maybe.  

Thanks again,
Cheers,
John



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-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Finch <fanf2 at hermes.cam.ac.uk> On Behalf Of Tony Finch
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 5:24 PM
To: Stoffel, John (TAI) <John.Stoffel at toshiba.com>
Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: Re: ISC Bind as secondary to Windows Server: bad bitmap error on named xfer.

Stoffel, John (TAI) <John.Stoffel at toshiba.com> wrote:

> failed while receiving responses: bad bitmap
>
> None of my googling has given me any hints on what this error could be.

I had to look at the source, which told me it's to do with NXT records which are super obsolete, so I wonder what weird stuff is in the zone that might cause this.

(The NXT record was a predecessor of NSEC; NXT was badly designed so it is unable to support all possible DNS RR types, which is why it needed
replacing.)

$ rg 'bad bitmap'
lib/dns/result.c:137:	"bad bitmap",	     /*%< 94 DNS_R_BADBITMAP */
$ rg BADBITMAP
lib/dns/include/dns/result.h:132:#define DNS_R_BADBITMAP		(ISC_RESULTCLASS_DNS + 94)
lib/dns/rdata/generic/nxt_30.c:154:		return (DNS_R_BADBITMAP);
lib/dns/result.c:137:	"bad bitmap",	     /*%< 94 DNS_R_BADBITMAP */
lib/dns/result.c:278:	"DNS_R_BADBITMAP",

Tony.
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