Bug#526823: libc6 2.9-9 broke DNS resolver again
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 08:54:07PM +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.9-9
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello, I was affected by the resolver bug that was solved in 2.9-7; as of 2.9-9
> the resolver stopped working again. The automatic workaround that is mentioned
> in the changelog is not working, and "single-request" in resolv.conf doesn't
> seem to have any effect either.
>
> Here's a dump of the resolver trying to get the address of google.com:
>
> 14:11:00.754265 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 45448, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 60)
> 10.0.0.3.60486 > 10.0.0.138.53: [udp sum ok] 39108+ A? www.google.com. (32)
> 14:11:00.754303 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 45449, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 60)
> 10.0.0.3.60486 > 10.0.0.138.53: [udp sum ok] 48015+ AAAA? www.google.com. (32)
> 14:11:00.759312 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 1324, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 60)
> 10.0.0.138.53 > 10.0.0.3.60486: [udp sum ok] 48015 NotImp q: AAAA? www.google.com. 0/0/0 (32)
> 14:11:00.817710 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 1325, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 144)
> 10.0.0.138.53 > 10.0.0.3.60486: 39108 q: A? www.google.com. 5/0/0 www.google.com. CNAME www.l.google.com.[|domain]
>
> The DNS server (it's my ADSL router) responds NotImp to the AAAA query (it does
> not support IPv6). The reply (CNAME) to the A query seems correct though.
>
Could you please try the glibc from http://temp.aurel32.net/glibc-test/ ?
I have backported a few more patch from upstream, but I have no way to
know if they change something or not.
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