Bug 15657 – /etc/init.d/pdnsd should add the "--tcp" flag to the options for starting pdnsd

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matt Oquist 2003-02-13 16:33:32 UTC]

Taken from http://home.t-online.de/home/Moestl/faq.html:

Q: Some queries for domains that have many records (e.g. www.gmx.de) fail
mysteriously.
A: pdnsd versions prior to 1.1.0 had the tcp server thread disabled by default.
Most resolvers repeat their query using tcp when they receive a truncated answer
(the answer is truncated when it exceeds a length of 512 bytes). You need to
recompile pdnsd with the option --enable-tcp-server to fix this.

The version of pdnsd I emerged is 1.1.7a; it was compiled with tcp support.  But
unless it is started with tcp support, it does no good.  It seems like it would
be the most helpful to enable tcp support by default.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Emerge pdnsd.
2./etc/init.d/pdnsd start
3.nslookup www.gmx.de

Actual Results:  
Server:  jean.domain.com
Address:  192.168.10.1

*** jean.zk3.dec.com can't find www.gmx.de: Server failed


Expected Results:  
Server:  jean.domain.com
Address:  192.168.10.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.gmx.de
Address:  213.165.65.100

[Comment 1 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2003-02-27 04:58:32 UTC]

Fixed, thanks for finding this!