Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] DNS Dynamic update delete packet shows as malformed

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:22:21 -0800
Suhan Andrei wrote:

when I send with nsupdate a command to delete a name
then in ethereal I can see Malformed Packet still change is
made in DNS.

There's a bug in 0.10.7 in the DNS dissector that causes it to improperly dissect dynamic DNS updates (it reports them as malformed if there are any RRs with a zero data length). The current code in Subversion has a fix for it.