Operational Notification: Some releases of BIND are too strict when handling referrals containing non-empty answer sections

[G.W. Haywood via bind-users]

Hi there,

... code refactoring ...

That phrase always sends shudders through my corpus.

[Tony Finch]

Post by G.W. Haywood via bind-users

... code refactoring ...

That phrase always sends shudders through my corpus.

I recommend having a read through query_find() from before 9.12. Be
warned it'll take a while, because the function is 2500 lines long.

https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/blob/v9_11/bin/named/query.c#L6700

Tony.
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[Mukund Sivaraman]

Post by Tony Finch

Post by G.W. Haywood via bind-users

... code refactoring ...

That phrase always sends shudders through my corpus.

I recommend having a read through query_find() from before 9.12. Be
warned it'll take a while, because the function is 2500 lines long.

tis but a scratch ;-)

Mukund
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[Mukund Sivaraman]

Post by G.W. Haywood via bind-users
Hi there,

... code refactoring ...

That phrase always sends shudders through my corpus.

Some functions in the reply handling in the resolver, e.g.,
answer_response() before refactoring were responsible for multiple CVEs
and IIRC even regressions introduced by fixes. Note that the bug now is
not a CVE severity one. Such refactoring, though risky to do for
evolved code, was necessary.

Mukund
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[Paul Kosinski]

Code refactoring is nothing compared to what Mozilla did to Firefox!

It's hard to believe they didn't change the name, given that they
totally changed the add-on interface and thereby removed so many of the
features that made Firefox our browser of choice.


On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:48:08 +0100 (BST)

Post by G.W. Haywood via bind-users
Hi there,

... code refactoring ...

That phrase always sends shudders through my corpus.

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