Re: dns issue

[Justus Winter]

Hi Adam :)

Quoting Adam Richards (2014-11-26 14:30:05)
> I have been lurking on the IRC archive for sometime
> and running your sources on VirtualBox on a Mac.

You are a brave soul then, remember to keep some snapshots around if
you are using my packages ;)

> One of the updates about 3-4 (?) months back started affecting dns lookup
> but only if I reboot. Without rebooting it continues to work.
> 
> If I reboot ping works but dns works strangely:
> dig www.google.com works
> dig www.apple.com does not work giving a timeout response error

Yes, I broke my netdde package a while ago:

http://git.sceen.net/hurd/incubator.git/commitdiff/e363aa56321f652684ffed281030d95d365c53c0?hp=dc7e40fa2b4abb76ae2a2c4fdf100e0a5f005aea

And I found the fix today:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2014-11/msg00132.html

My latest packages contain the fix.

> Strangely if I put in dig www.apple.com] it does work

Yes, the message is padded so that the size of the message is a
multiple of four.  So some responses are delivered correctly by
accident, and this depends on the query.

Cheers,
Justus