Bad compression pointer

[Erik Rozendaal]

David Coursey wrote:
> Hi, first time posting to this list, and first time using NSD.
> 
> I decided to install 1.4.0-Alpha1 and everything seemed to install ok,
> but I can't get it running correctly.  I followed the instructions in
> the README to the letter.  There were no errors while installing.
> 
> The specific problem I have is when I try to dig
> test.rilextechnologies.com  I get the error:
> 
> ;; Got bad packet: bad compression pointer
> 88 bytes
> 34 5a 85 00 00 01 00 02 00 01 00 00 04 74 65 73
> 74 11 72 69 6c 65 78 74 65 63 68 6e 6f 6c 6f 67
> 69 65 73 03 63 6f 6d 00 00 01 00 01 c0 0c 00 05
> 00 01 00 01 51 80 00 02 c3 73 c3 73 00 01 00 01
> 00 01 51 80 00 04 42 c2 77 82 c0 11 00 02 00 01
> 00 01 51 80 00 02 ec 6f
> 
> I was thinking that this might be an error in my configuration files,
> but am unsure.
> 
> Let me know what you think or if you need more information.

Definitely an NSD bug (it should never respond with bad packets), even 
though it may be triggered by strange zone files.  Could you send me a 
copy of the zone and configuration file as well as the dig command you used?

Also, what platform are you running NSD on (OS, cpu, etc)?

Thanks,
Erik