Severity

E (error)

Message text

Invalid length (LEN=0x%X, RR[%d]=0x%X, END=0x%X)

Description

DNS block parser has finished reading of the last announced RR. Its number, offset of start and offset of end are printed in parenthesis. The announced block length is not equal to accumulated length of all records.

The error should be caused either by wrong number of RRs or block length announced.

This message introduces dump of the read block.

In case of query, request is rejected with FormErr response code.

In case of reply, whole answer is ignored and next server is tried.

See also

DNSR-719(6), DNSE-790(6), DNSE-791(6), logging(7)

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