[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#849576: getdns-utils: Error messages are really too poor

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

Package: getdns-utils
Version: 1.1.0~a2-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

I know that getdns_query is a demonstrator of getdns, and is not
intended to be a replacement for DNS clients like dig. Nevertheless, I
think that the error messages are really too poor to be usable:

Non-existing server, TLS:

% getdns_query  @192.0.2.1 -s  -l L www.bortzmeyer.org
An error occurred: 1 'Generic error'

All done.

Non-existing server, plain:

% getdns_query  @192.0.2.1 -s  www.bortzmeyer.org

SYNC response:
{
  "answer_type": GETDNS_NAMETYPE_DNS,
    "canonical_name": <bindata for www.bortzmeyer.org.>,
      "replies_full": [],
        "replies_tree": [],
	  "status": GETDNS_RESPSTATUS_ALL_TIMEOUT
	  }
	  Response code was: GOOD. Status was: All queries for the
	  name timed out

All done.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.3-x86_64-linode76 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages getdns-utils depends on:
ii  libc6        2.24-8
ii  libgetdns1   1.1.0~a2-1
ii  libidn11     1.33-1
ii  libssl1.1    1.1.0c-2
ii  libunbound2  1.5.10-3

getdns-utils recommends no packages.

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