[ldns-users] trailing garbage in wire parser

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Jelte, Bert,

On 09/06/2009 04:02 PM, bert hubert wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jelte Jansen<jelte at isc.org> wrote:
>> robert edmonds brought to my attention something that might or might not be a
>> problem in ldns; the wire parser does not error if there is trailing garbage
>> after a dns packet. One could very well say that that is not supposed to happen
>> and an error should be raised.
> 
> Hi Jelte! I have to get used to your (new?) email address!
> 
> Ok, on trailing garbage, this is rife on the internet. PowerDNS used
> to error out on it, but it was not doable.

+1

> So now we ignore it, and life is good.
> 
> What is right for ldns depends on your goals, but if you want to make
> ldns suitable as a base to build 'real life' solutions on, you almost
> have no choice beyond ignoring trailing garbage on otherwise valid
> packets.

So, accept leniently, send strictly.  Also for trailing garbage.

Best regards,
   Wouter
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