Re: router problem

[Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>]

On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:28:01PM +0100, Artur Urbanowicz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have discovered a message which kills my router process
> when placed in $POSTOFFICE/router directory. Router called
> with trace option enabled ("-t all") produces following 
> output on this message, just before coredump:

	Could you upload the troublesome message (excluding the body)
	to URL:
		ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/incoming/
	and send me a note about it ?

>   search_res: deferred: [poloralphlauren.com>, <user@another.server>,\
>   [...] <the@last.address>]/any (unknown server/no recovery) error
>   defer='NS:[poloralphlauren.com>, <user@another.server>, [...]\
>   <the@last.address>]/any'
> 
> My routes crashes, when the entire address list is more than 8184
> bytes long. 

	That is - weird - situation.
	Something seems to be questionable with the address handling, and
	I would like to see what the original input is in your case.

> Perhaps the problem is caused by buffer size limitation 
> (BUFSIZ=8192 on my system) in function search_res() defined 
> in router/libdb/bind.c, or the reason the function is called 
> with large parameter.
> 
> Regards,
> Artur Urbanowicz

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/Matti Aarnio	<mea@nic.funet.fi>