On Apr 23, 2006, at 11:01 PM, Roy Arends wrote:

>
> On Mar 30, 2006, at 6:29 PM, John Kristoff wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I ran into a presumably uncommon situation of a server returning an
>> answer for q VERSION.BIND TXT CH query (fpdns -f) which contains no
>> rdata.
>
> No rdata as in rdlen=0 or there is no rdlen ?
>
> Could you tell me (offlist if you'd like) which ip responds that way?
>
>>   This results in an obscure error message from Text::ParseWords
>> complaining about an uninitialized value.  Note, this does not occur
>> when running fpdns for some reason, I stopped trying to figure this
>> out when I solved my immediate problem in using the module by doing
>> the following:
>
> Text::ParseWords is being called from Net::DNS::RR::TXT. fpdns uses  
> the Net::DNS stuff.
>
> If I can reproduce this I'll send Olaf Kolkman (Net::DNS  
> maintainer) an bug-report. You can do that yourself as well ofcourse.
>
> Meanwhile, I'll add your fix to the repository. Thanks !

I was not able to reproduce this.

I've set up a server returning version.bind chaos txt with rdlen=0,  
no obscure error message
I've set up a server returning version.bind chaos txt without even  
rdlen, no obscure error message.

What version of fpdns and Net::DNS are you using ?

Roy

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