Bug ID 559819: DNS queries with OPT have no OPT in response for RFC 6891 compliance.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6

Fixed In:
13.0.0

Opened: Nov 24, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K02774264

Symptoms

BIG-IP DNS does not include an OPT record in responses to received requests that contain OPT records.

Impact

A resolver, not seeing an OPT, might interprets this as a lack of support and might send duplicate TCP requests.

Conditions

This occurs when the following condition is met: -- The query includes OPT.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

DNS queries with OPT now have OPT in response for RFC 6891 compliance. This fix also corrects other commonly found compliance issues with regard to EDNS handling as specified in clarifying RFC 6891.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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