tree 4ea204b41a7ca06a7abc715e031f1233b2411bed
parent 906cda9512f77671ab44f8c8563b13a8e707b230
author Ian Gudger <igudger@google.com> 1484526603 -0800
committer Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com> 1488577836 +0000

dns/dnsmessage: add support for parsing and packing of DNS messages

The Go standard library contains support for packing and unpacking of
DNS messages, but it is not exported, doesn't follow Go style, and is
not very well optimized. Low level DNS functionality is clearly useful
to the Go community as evidenced by the success of
github.com/miekg/dns. This implementation endeavors to avoid the
limitations of both the standard library and github.com/miekg/dns
implementations and is an almost complete rewrite of the code
currently found in on net/dnsmsg.go and net/dnsmsg_test.go.

Goals:
* Minimize heap allocations.
* Allow parsing only what is needed. Avoid unnecessary parsing and
  heap allocations for parts of the message that you don't care about.
  Parsing should be allowed on as small of a granularity as is useful,
  but no smaller as to avoid complicating the interface.
* Parse and pack each byte of the message at most one time.

Updates golang/go#16218
Updates golang/go#10622

Change-Id: Ib754d0007609a617d88be867f21c2feb15b6fcd7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/35237
Run-TryBot: Mikio Hara <mikioh.mikioh@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Mikio Hara <mikioh.mikioh@gmail.com>