[nsd-users] NSD compressing RP content

[Matthijs Mekking]

Hi Peter,

Sure we can send RP domain names uncompressed from now on.

I can understand your reasoning: RP is not defined in RFC 1035, hence it
is not allowed to use *name* compression.

However, RP (and AFSDB and RT) are defined in RFC 1183, and at the time
that that specification was written, name compression was allowed for
these records (not explicitly mentioned in the specification). RFC3597
deals with this saying that *receiving* servers should decompress domain
names in these RRs.

So I fail to see where things might be harmful. PowerDNS should have no
problem if it implements RFC3597, as RP should be decompressed, as BIND
and Unbound does too (Unbound actually decompresses all domain names of
known RR types).

Also, I assume your request is not limited to RP, but is also for AFSDB
and RT.

Best regards,
  Matthijs


On 03/01/2013 03:22 PM, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> while investigating a report from Jan-Piet Mens (resulting in http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/changeset/3109), we discovered that NSD (both 3.2.15 and 4.0.0b4) compresses labels in RP content. As far as I can see, this is not allowed by RFC3597 section 4 paragraph 1/2.
> 
> PowerDNS Recursor, like Unbound and BIND, now deals with this as 3597 section 4 paragraph 4 says we SHOULD. Nevertheless, it would be great if NSD could honor the MUST NOT in paragraph 2.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 


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