[reSIProcate] Assertion failure/crash in ARES
Hi!
I came across a problem in ares with misbehaving(?) nameservers. I have
been using a nameserver (130.149.2.12), which does not give a "No such
name" response, when queried for nonexistent domain names but a list of
some additional records.
In debug builds this causes an assertion failure in file dnsstub.cxx
line 223: assert (!soa.empty());
This naturally leads to an error with release builds in line 225:
RRCache::instance()->cacheTTL(key, rrType, status, soa[0]);
I am not all that familiar with DNS, that I could say whether the DNS
server is actually misbehaving or not, but I can supply Wireshark logs
if that helps.
Anyhow I think it should gracefully fail - misbehaving servers or not.
best regards,
gabriel