[ldns-users] how to check existence of EDNS in read packet

[Darryl]

Hi,

If you are using ldns_wire2pkt(), you can call ldns_pkt_edns() to determine
if the received packet has EDNS or not.

Regards,
Darryl



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bedrich Kosata" <bedrich.kosata at nic.cz>
To: <ldns-users at open.nlnetlabs.nl>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ldns-users] how to check existence of EDNS in read packet


> On 10/25/2010 06:21 PM, Ray Bellis wrote:
>>
>> On 25 Oct 2010, at 14:40, Bedrich Kosata wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have the following problem. When parsing DNS packets, I need to know 
>>> if an OPT RR containing EDNS is present. However, it seems that ldns 
>>> parses this RR separately and then removes it from the additional 
>>> section.
>>> What is the best way to find out if this RR was present in the original 
>>> data? I need this to find out if the zero returned for edns version is a 
>>> real value or a default one.
>>> It seems that the best I can do for now is to use the value of 
>>> _edns_udp_size, but this could be zero as well (at least in theory), 
>>> could it not?
>>>
>>> I would be glad for any insight.
>>
>> This function should give you the original EDNS RR (if any)
>>
>>    ldns_rdf *ldns_pkt_edns_data(const ldns_pkt *packet)
>>
>> Ray
>>
>
> Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case. This structure only 
> contains the optional data that might be present in the OPT RR, but which 
> is often empty and thus this value is NULL.
> It seems that the best I could do, is to use "ldns_pkt_edns" which tells 
> if there is data in the packet that would require use of EDNS. However, 
> this function is meant to be used when constructing a packet, so it would 
> not be reliable in case the packet arrived with OPT RR but contained 
> zeroes in every field.
> It would be cool, if there could be an indicator value in the ldns_pkt 
> struct which would tell if there was an OPT RR in the raw data.
>
> Best regards
>
> Beda
>
>
> -- 
> Bedrich Kosata
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