[Bug 291589] Re: resolver does not (always) try A record after query for AAAA returns NXDOMAIN

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme]

several strange things here.  the first command should not hang.  how long does it hang?  two minutes?
the second command should not return an answer.  if the DNS server answers with an authoritative NXDOMAIN, there is no reason to ask for an A record.

(btw, you should use getaddrinfo(3) rather than the deprecated
gethostbyname(3) to do host lookups.  in other words, getent ahosts, not
getent hosts.)

PS. it was kind of pointless to obfuscate the names, since they are
visible in the packet dumps.  this only makes it harder to read your
error description.

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Title:
  resolver does not (always) try A record after query for AAAA returns
  NXDOMAIN

Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  My laptop is an Ubuntu Intrepid system with IPv6 enabled, which I use
  regularly without problems. Recently, however, the glibc resolver has
  been acting strangely after one of my network environments installed
  the powerdns DNS server.

  Contents of /etc/resolv.conf (from DHCP):
  ---
  domain company.local
  search company.local
  nameserver 10.0.0.1
  ---

  Resolving queries fails on my laptop if I use fully qualified names for which the powerdns server is authoritative:
  # getent hosts host001.company.local.
  [timeout]

  But if I just use relative names:
  # getent hosts host001
  10.0.0.2    host001.company.local

  If I try resolving a server for which the powerdns server is *not* authoritative:
  # getent hosts www.xs4all.nl.
  194.109.6.92    www.xs4all.nl

  I think I have traced the problem to the fact that powerdns replies
  with "no such domain" when queried for a name for which an AAAA record
  does not exist. Bind will just reply with an empty result. Apparently,
  the glibc resolver will retry for an A records only if the name to be
  resolved is not fully qualified!?

  I have attached a tcpdump from the DNS traffic resulting from the
  above commands.

  Ubuntu 8.10
  libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7
  powerdns 3.1.7

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