[ldns-users] Critical bug in ldns core lookup

Jelte Jansen jelte at NLnetLabs.nl
Sat Apr 4 14:44:57 UTC 2009


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> I've upgraded my source to 1.5.1... somewhat of a pain actually. If you
> don't have SSL (the iPhone doesn't have OpenSSL available), there are a
> number of places that fail because of missing ifdefs.

ok that certainly needs to be fixed then, I'll look into it.

> Anyway, I think I've isolated the problem(s) to local nameservers being
> broken (not supporting EDNS0), the iphone simulator needing a full quit
> and restart to clear its memory between runs, and in GPRS/EDGE the
> necessity to drop back to TCP because EDNS0 UDP will fail even using
> well-behaved OpenDNS servers.
> 

Hmm, if it's possible, could you send me a packet dump of an answer that fails?
If it's ldns that does not gracefully error on broken packets i want to fix that.

> I'll ping the list back if problems still arise, but thanks very much
> for the quick responses.
> BTW, also thanks VERY much for ldns. I love it, it's very fast and
> simple to use.

Thank you :)

Jelte
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