tree 798d471fbbc43a40945d43a8c8c8429ea74226d8
parent c8897c278d1087bda543ec7041384fcedc5e4036
author Dan McArdle <dmcardle@google.com> 1602626661 -0400
committer Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org> 1617138036 +0000

dns/dnsmessage: add RFC3597-inspired UnknownResource type

Currently, dnsmessage is not capable of parsing messages that contain
unknown records. Specifically, unpackResourceType returns an error
stating "invalid resource type".

This makes it tricky to use dnsmessage for applications such as
recursive resolvers or DNS forwarders. (I was bitten already, which is
why I'm writing this!)

RFC3597 indicates that name servers and resolvers must treat unknown RRs
as binary data. Quoting the first paragraph from section 3 below:

>   To enable new RR types to be deployed without server changes, name
>   servers and resolvers MUST handle RRs of unknown type transparently.
>   That is, they must treat the RDATA section of such RRs as
>   unstructured binary data, storing and transmitting it without change
>   [RFC1123].

Fixes #42128

Change-Id: I2a203177e6e6cf51d70c63568c0465fc36a49afe
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/net/+/262037
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