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#20 Handle RCODE != 0 gracefully

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2000-11-01
2000-11-01
Eric Kidd
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Some DNS clients are sending us empty query packets of the form:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: FORMERR, id: 4779

These are confusing the generateReply method in VirtualDNS. We should probably check the RCODE field of all queries, and log anything that contains an error value

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