Bug ID 1082197: RNAME and MNAME field order reversed for Synthetic SOAs sent for negative response

Last Modified: Oct 04, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP DNS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1

Opened: Feb 18, 2022

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Synthetic SOA returned by BIG-IP has the MNAME and RNAME fields reversed, resulting in the wrong values being noted as the primary name server and mailbox of administrator, respectively.

Impact

Per RFC (rfc1035) the order of the fields is significant and MNAME must come before RNAME. When reversed, consumers of the synthetic SOA will associate the wrong values with the wrong fields.

Conditions

-- Set the failure-rcode-response enabled and failure-rcode-ttl on a down WIP. -- Perform a DNS query. -- Observe the SOA.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips