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Bug#526823: libc6 2.9-9 broke DNS resolver again



On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:55:22PM +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
>> To recap: my ADSL router receives two requests and sends back *two*
>> answers; to the A query it replies with the expected data, to the AAAA
>> query it replies "NotImpl" (see the tcpdump in the first email).
>
> I doubt that this behaviour is allowed. "Not implemented" is a response
> to the query type, aka standard query or inverse query, not to the
> contents of the query.[1]

I see, I though that "not implemented" was linked to the qtype, not to
the opcode. So, yes, the router is broken, thanks for explaining.

> This behaviour also violates the transparency considerations.[2]

I'm pretty sure that my router predates that RFC :P

Luca



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