Re: BUG: ICMPv6 DNS Search List Option zero padding flagged as an error.

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>]

Hi,

Is this related to https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6660

Thanks,
Jaap

On 03/31/2012 10:04 PM, Simon Kelley wrote:
> Dear Wireshark people,
>
>
> Thanks for an excellent package: it's really invaluable.
>
> A small bug I've found.
>
> Display of ICMPv6 DNS search list option (option 31)
>
> Zero octets following the terminating zero of the last name are flagged
> as Error/Malformed, but this is wrong. The length field for ICMPv6
> packets gives units of 8 bytes, and RFC 6106 para 5.2 says:
>
> "Because the size of this field MUST be a multiple of 8 octets,
> for the minimum multiple including the domain name
> representations, the remaining octets other than the
> encoding parts of the domain name representations
> MUST be padded with zeros."
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.

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