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From: Justin Kalina <justin@ad-v.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: host -l MX or NS core dumps

>Number:         5854
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       host -l MX or NS core dumps
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 25 17:10:02 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Tue Aug 4 03:05:39 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Fri Aug  7 09:10:00 PDT 1998
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Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: mpp 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Feb 26 18:39:30 PST 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Misfiled PR. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 4 03:05:39 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
As part of our PR auditing campaign, this PR has been closed due to its 
age and lack of activity on the PR. 

The host program is part of the BIND software, and is maintained by 
Paul Vixie et al.  I belive they consider the "host" program obsolete 
and advise people to use "dig" instead. 

Sorry about the late reaction to this PR. 

From: Studded <Studded@dal.net>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: justin@ad-v.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG,
        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/5854
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 11:31:21 -0700

 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
 > 
 > Synopsis: host -l MX or NS core dumps
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: phk
 > State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 4 03:05:39 PDT 1998
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > As part of our PR auditing campaign, this PR has been closed due to its
 > age and lack of activity on the PR.
 
 	I still object to this whole line of thought. How can you be sure that
 the error is not caused by our hacking BIND into freebsd?  There are so
 many modifications that are made to the resolver for example that
 passing this off to the BIND people is not a legitimate strategy without
 even a cursory examination. "We don't want to deal with this PR so we're
 making it go away" isn't a good model IMO. 
 
 > The host program is part of the BIND software, and is maintained by
 > Paul Vixie et al.  I belive they consider the "host" program obsolete
 > and advise people to use "dig" instead.
 
 	No, it's nslookup that is obsolete.

From: Mark Huizer <freebsd@xaa.iae.nl>
To: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: justin@ad-v.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG,
        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/5854
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 11:51:58 +0200

 > > Synopsis: host -l MX or NS core dumps
 > > 
 > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > > State-Changed-By: phk
 > > State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 4 03:05:39 PDT 1998
 > > State-Changed-Why:
 > > As part of our PR auditing campaign, this PR has been closed due to its
 > > age and lack of activity on the PR.
 > 
 > 	I still object to this whole line of thought. How can you be sure that
 > the error is not caused by our hacking BIND into freebsd?  There are so
 > many modifications that are made to the resolver for example that
 > passing this off to the BIND people is not a legitimate strategy without
 > even a cursory examination. "We don't want to deal with this PR so we're
 > making it go away" isn't a good model IMO. 
 
 I agree. We don't have it as a port-like model so we can adjust stuff 
 ourselves... Hmm... ok, I'll see if I can have a look at it and fix it,
 when I pr'ed it I wasn;t in the mood for that, but we'll see.
 -- 
 Nice testing in little China...

From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc: justin@ad-v.com
Subject: Re: bin/5854
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:05:55 -0400 (EDT)

 [ On Tue, August 4, 1998 at 03:06:57 (-0700), Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: ]
 > Subject: Re: bin/5854
 >
 > Synopsis: host -l MX or NS core dumps
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: phk
 > State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 4 03:05:39 PDT 1998
 > State-Changed-Why: 
 > As part of our PR auditing campaign, this PR has been closed due to its
 > age and lack of activity on the PR.
 > 
 > The host program is part of the BIND software, and is maintained by
 > Paul Vixie et al.  I belive they consider the "host" program obsolete
 > and advise people to use "dig" instead.
 
 That's because host(1) is no longer part of the BIND package.  The
 version included there is *ancient*.  The currently maintained version
 of host(1) is infinitely more useful then dig(1) (the latter also
 requires perl too).
 
 The correct URL for fetching the most recent release of host(1) is:
 
 	ftp://ftp.nikhef.nl/pub/network/host.tar.Z
 
 Contact e07@nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar) for further information on this
 and other very useful network utilities (ping, traceroute, vrfy, etc.)
 
 -- 
 							Greg A. Woods
 
 +1 416 443-1734      VE3TCP      <gwoods@acm.org>      <robohack!woods>
 Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>
>Unformatted:
When i issue a host -l command on some hosts I get these responses.

justin@mercury:~>host -l NS luptid.ad-v.com
Using domain server:
Name: luptid.ad-v.com
Address: 209.51.160.70
Aliases:

Server failed: Premature end of data
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
justin@mercury:~>

justin@mercury:~>host -l MX skywalker.jedi.net
Using domain server:
Name: skywalker.jedi.net
Address: 206.136.149.207
Aliases:

Server failed: Premature end of data
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
justin@mercury:~>

That was on a FreeBSD mercury.cyberwarp.net 2.2.2-RELEASE machine.

(Wed 7:58pm) justin@driveby ttypu:~> host -l NS luptid.ad-v.com
Using domain server:
Name: luptid.ad-v.com
Address: 209.51.160.70
Aliases:

Server failed: Premature end of data
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
(Wed 7:58pm) justin@driveby ttypu:~> 

(Wed 8:00pm) justin@driveby ttypu:~> host -l MX skywalker.jedi.net
Using domain server:
Name: skywalker.jedi.net
Address: 206.136.149.207
Aliases:

Server failed: Premature end of data
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
(Wed 8:01pm) justin@driveby ttypu:~> 

FreeBSD driveby.rollingstrong.com 2.2.5-RELEASE machine.

	

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