Comment by kayson

17 hours ago

> However, we did not have any tests asserting the behavior remains consistent due to the ambiguous language in the RFC.

Maybe I'm being overly-cynical but I have a hard time believing that they deliberately omitted a test specifically because they reviewed the RFC and found the ambiguous language. I would've expected to see some dialog with IETF beforehand if that were the case. Or some review of the behavior of common DNS clients.

It seems like an oversight, and that's totally fine.

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bombcar  17 hours ago

I took it as being "we wrote the tests to the standard" and then built the code, and whoever was writing the tests didn't read that line as a testable aspect.

supriyo-biswas  17 hours ago

My reading of that statement is their test, assuming they had one, looked something like this:

    rrs = resolver.resolve('www.example.test')
    assert Record("cname1.example.test", type="CNAME") in rrs
    assert Record("192.168.0.1", type="A") in rrs

Which wouldn't have caught the ordering problem.

  • hdjrudni  16 hours ago

    It's implied that they intentionally tested it that way, without any assertions on the order. Not by oversight of incompetence, but because they didn't want to bake the requirement in due to uncertainty.

mcfedr  5 hours ago

its pretty concerning that such a large organisation doesnt do any integration tests with their dns infrastructure