Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#2200 closed defect (fixed)

Ignore/discard DNS SRV response with truncated flag set

Reported by: riza Owned by: riza
Priority: normal Milestone: release-2.9
Component: pjlib-util Version: trunk
Keywords: Cc:
Backport to 1.x milestone: Backported: no

Description

The standard stated:

DNS resolvers and recursive servers MUST support UDP, and
SHOULD support TCP, for sending (non-zone-transfer) queries.
Specifically, a DNS resolver or server that is sending a
non-zone-transfer query MUST send a UDP query first.  If the
Answer section of the response is truncated and if the
requester supports TCP, it SHOULD try the query again using
TCP.

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Truncated responses MUST NOT be saved (cached) and later
used in such a way that the fact that they are truncated is
lost.

Instead of following up with a TCP query which is unsupported, currently the library will follow up with DNS A query. Based on the recommendation above, it's better to discard the response and raise error.

Thanks to Daniel Schopf for the report.

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by riza

  • Owner set to riza
  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

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Close #2200: Ignore/discard DNS SRV response with truncated flag set.

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