[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#893666: bind9-host: invalid results for -t ANY/NS

[John Runyon]

Package: bind9-host
Version: 1:9.11.2.P1-1
Severity: normal

host is giving invalid results for some queries, for example the below. It is likely worth noting that I do have a searchdomain configured, though I also included the "null label" in these examples, so it shouldn't be interpreting searchdomains anyway.
Running without directly specifying the nameserver to query ("host -t NS com.") DOES work.


$ host -t NS com. a.root-servers.net
Using domain server:
Name: a.root-servers.net
Address: 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53
Aliases:

com has no NS record



$ host -t NS -v com. a.root-servers.net
Trying "com"
Using domain server:
Name: a.root-servers.net
Address: 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53
Aliases:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41664
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 12

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;com.                           IN      NS

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com.                    172800  IN      NS      e.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      b.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      j.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      m.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      i.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      f.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      a.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      g.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      h.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      l.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      k.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      c.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      d.gtld-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
e.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      A       192.12.94.30
e.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      AAAA    2001:502:1ca1::30
b.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      A       192.33.14.30
b.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      AAAA    2001:503:231d::2:30
j.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      A       192.48.79.30
j.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      AAAA    2001:502:7094::30
m.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      A       192.55.83.30
m.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      AAAA    2001:501:b1f9::30
i.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      A       192.43.172.30
i.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      AAAA    2001:503:39c1::30
f.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      A       192.35.51.30
f.gtld-servers.net.     172800  IN      AAAA    2001:503:d414::30

Received 509 bytes from 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53 in 6 ms


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages bind9-host depends on:
ii  libbind9-160      1:9.11.2.P1-1
ii  libc6             2.27-2
ii  libcap2           1:2.25-1.2
ii  libcomerr2        1.44.0-1
ii  libdns169         1:9.11.2.P1-1
ii  libgeoip1         1.6.12-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.16-2
ii  libisc166         1:9.11.2.P1-1
ii  libisccfg160      1:9.11.2.P1-1
ii  libjson-c3        0.12.1-1.3
ii  libk5crypto3      1.16-2
ii  libkrb5-3         1.16-2
ii  liblmdb0          0.9.21-1
ii  liblwres160       1:9.11.2.P1-1
ii  libssl1.1         1.1.0g-2
ii  libxml2           2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1

bind9-host recommends no packages.

bind9-host suggests no packages.

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