[ldns-users] oxffffffff in dns records cause a syntax error in ldns-read-zone

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Paul,

On 01/11/2011 12:44 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> While digging through a large customer zone, I found a few hostnames
> that contained
> 0xffffffff characters. Usually the hostname would be just those
> characters. Via AXFR
> you see these as \255\255\255[...]

This works fine for me:
\255\255\255\255.	3600	IN	A	192.0.2.1

What is the input that fails?

> Doing some googling I surprisingly did find mention of these in some
> RFC's, so I
> guess these are legal (if buggy and unwise) characters.
> 
> So should ldns-read-zone accept these as valid? :)

Yes, it works for me.

> Paul
> ps. if anyone knows what buggy software generates these dynamic updates,
> I'd be
> interested in knowing.

Best regards,
   Wouter
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