[SSSD] [PATCH] Band-aid for handling very large DNS replies
Stephen Gallagher
sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu Jan 21 18:07:08 UTC 2010
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On 01/21/2010 10:44 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>
> c-ares will fall back to TCP if the UDP lookup reply has the TRUNCATED
> flag set. Our mainloop integration is not properly handling the
> bidirectional TCP communication.
>
> c-ares can be configured to ignore the TRUNCATED flag and just work with
> the shortened list of responses it receives over UDP. This patch will
> implement that solution in the short-term while we try to solve the
> bigger integration issue.
>
> My efforts in the integration area seem to be implying that there may be
> a bug in c-ares itself where it's not properly informing the mainloop
> when it wants to write, so this may be a very long process.
>
Self-nack. I've found a real fix that will handle TCP DNS properly. New
patch coming in a new thread.
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