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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
I recently stepped on an issue with curl using c-ares ares_getaddrinfo() with PF_UNSPEC family, when AAAA response from DNS server contained some bad data resulting into ARES_EBADRESP status code whereas A response was good.<br>
<br>
The problem was that when AAAA response was the last received, it made c-ares to ignore previously received good A response and fail the host resolution with ARES_EBADRESP status code.<br>
But if A response was the last received, then c-ares ignored the bad AAAA response and the host resolution was successful.<br>
<br>
I looked at the c-ares code, and found the problem in the host_callback() function<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#880000">
</span> (src\lib\ares_getaddrinfo.c: 528)<br>
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static void host_callback(void *arg, int status, int timeouts,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> unsigned char *abuf, int alen)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">{<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> struct host_query *hquery = (struct host_query*)arg;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> int addinfostatus = ARES_SUCCESS;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> hquery->timeouts += timeouts;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> hquery->remaining--;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> if (status == ARES_SUCCESS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> {<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> addinfostatus = ares__parse_into_addrinfo(abuf, alen, 1, hquery->port, hquery->ai);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> }<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> if (!hquery->remaining)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> {<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> if (addinfostatus != ARES_SUCCESS && addinfostatus != ARES_ENODATA)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> {<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> /* error in parsing result e.g. no memory */<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> end_hquery(hquery, addinfostatus);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> }<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> else if (hquery->ai->nodes) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> …<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When there are no remaining queries, the ARES_EBADRESP parsing error is reported immediately, even though the previous query might be successful.<br>
<br>
I suggest the following fix for this problem:<br>
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if (!hquery->remaining)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> {<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> if (addinfostatus != ARES_SUCCESS && addinfostatus != ARES_ENODATA)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> {<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> /* error in parsing result e.g. no memory */<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> if (addinfostatus == ARES_EBADRESP && hquery->ai->nodes)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> {<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> /* We got a bad response from the server, but at least one query<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> * ended with ARES_SUCCESS */<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> end_hquery(hquery, ARES_SUCCESS);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> }<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> else<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> {<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> end_hquery(hquery, addinfostatus);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> }<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> }<br>
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><br>
</span>I am also attaching a patch file with the potential fix.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Dmitry Karpov<o:p></o:p></p>
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