Subj : Re: Things that piss you off...
To   : nelgin
From : Gamgee
Date : Fri Jul 10 2026 13:21:41

-=> nelgin wrote to Gamgee <=-

 >  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...

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

My bad, I thought you knew more about this...

So, do you think all distros run the same version of bind?  Do you think 
there could *possibly* be different default configuration files 
(named.conf) between different Linux distros?

Another thing - I just checked some of my various systems using 
different Linux distros, and ALL of them were newer than 9.16, so maybe 
that behavior has been fixed/changed?  Even a Ubuntu machine had 9.18.x 
and others (Slackware, Mint, MX) were 9.20.x ...

Maybe it's time to update...


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