[ldns-users] trailing garbage in wire parser

[bert hubert]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Robert Edmonds<edmonds at debian.org> wrote:
> bert hubert wrote:
>> Ok, on trailing garbage, this is rife on the internet. PowerDNS used
>> to error out on it, but it was not doable.
>
> really?  do you have any current numbers?  i've only been able to find a
> few packets with trailing garbage, but maybe my sample is biased.

I've mostly seen this on the resolver side, where you talk to the
unwashed masses of soho routers/modems..

But it was frequent enough to cause helpdesk calls and spam the log.

So it is a no-go for 'real life use'.

    Bert