Subj : Re: Things that piss you off...
To   : Gamgee
From : nelgin
Date : Fri Jul 10 2026 11:12:59

On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:12:00 -0500
"Gamgee" (86:200/23) <Gamgee@f23.n200.z86.fidonet> wrote:

> -=> nelgin wrote to NixNet.NIX_LINUX <=-  
> 
>  ne> At work I got a ticket escalated to me. Resolving an hostname to
>  ne> an A record stopped working.  
> 
>  ne> Look me ages to figure this one out and to gut a long story
>  ne> short, Bind 9.16 (and maybe prior versions) hard limit the
>  ne> number of A record results to 100. Someone decided it would be a
>  ne> good idea to make additional A records to bring the number to
>  ne> 107.  
> 
>  ne> It seems things were changed due to some sort of CVE that stops
>  ne> DNS returning those results unless you disable the check in the
>  ne> named.conf file.  
> 
>  ne> I hate it when things change but nobody actually makes it
>  ne> obvious what was changed...time I'll never get back.  
> 
>  ne> Anyone else pissed off by Linux recently?  
> 
> Was this a "Linux" thing, or a <Distro-name> thing?  I'm thinking it
> may be a customized version/config that's causing that...

It's a bind thing, which runs on linux.
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