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Re: Killing ircds via DNS

From: "van der Kooij, Hugo" <Hugo.van.der.Kooij () CAIW NL>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:12:09 +0100

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, David Luyer wrote:

The bug is triggered by returning a 128-byte answer to an A-record query, eg,
a 128-byte A-record response to a reverse DNS lookup on the client IP.  The
fix should be self-evident.


I'm not that good in coding.

But isn't requesting an A record a normal DNS request? (Get an IP address
by the given name.) A reverse DNS query would be for a PTR record.
(Getting the name by an IP address.)

Hugo.

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