[Pdns-users] PDNS && Solaris && Recursor setting not working

[Remco Post]

On Feb 24, 2004, at 19:58, bert hubert wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:24:42AM +0100, Roderick Groesbeek wrote:
>
>> Feb 20 18:25:15 Not authoritative for 'www.doei.nl', sending servfail 
>> to 80.69.66.173 (recursion was desired)
>
> I hear there are patches for this problem, trying to gather them now. 
> It has
> to do with endianness.
>
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I wrote the following lines, not very well tested, but it does help a 
little, the patch is against 2.9.15:


*** pdns/dnsproxy.cc.old     Fri Feb  6 14:00:51 2004
--- pdns/dnsproxy.cc Mon Feb  9 22:29:18 2004
***************
*** 172,177 ****
--- 172,182 ----
         memcpy(&d,buffer,sizeof(d));
         {
         Lock l(&d_lock);
+ #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
+       // d.id is network-endian at this point and must be made into a 
'native'-endian u_int16_t
+       // on little-endian systems, network-endian is native so we 
don't need to do anything
+       d.id = ( 256 * (u_int16_t)buffer[1] ) + (u_int16_t)buffer[0];
+ #endif
         map_t::iterator i=d_conntrack.find(d.id^d_xor);
         if(i==d_conntrack.end()) {
           L<<Logger::Error<<"Discarding untracked packet from recursor 
backend with id "<<(d.id^d_xor)<<


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