Bug 816166 - nslookup exits with zero return value when DNS server is not accessible
Summary: nslookup exits with zero return value when DNS server is not accessible
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bind
Version: 16
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Tkac
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-25 11:54 UTC by Jan Stodola
Modified: 2013-04-30 23:51 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of: 816164
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-05-22 09:27:06 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jan Stodola 2012-04-25 11:54:47 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #816164 +++

Description of problem:
nslookup exits with zero return value even when a query fails (DNS server doesn't respond): 

[root@rtt5 ~]# rpm -qf `which nslookup`
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.7.rc1.el6.s390x
[root@rtt5 ~]# nslookup 11.22.33.44 172.16.1.1
;; connection timed out; trying next origin
;; connection timed out; trying next origin
;; connection timed out; trying next origin
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

[root@rtt5 ~]# echo $?
0

Compare with the "host" command:
[root@rtt5 ~]# host 11.22.33.44 172.16.1.1
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
[root@rtt5 ~]# echo $?
1

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bind-utils-9.8.2-0.7.rc1.el6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. nslookup 11.22.33.44 172.16.1.1
2. echo $?
  
Actual results:
0

Expected results:
non-zero value

Comment 1 Jan Stodola 2012-04-25 11:55:47 UTC
Also reproduced on F16, bind-utils-9.8.2-0.4.rc2.fc16.x86_64

Comment 2 Adam Tkac 2012-05-22 09:27:06 UTC
Fixed in bind-9.9.0-6.fc18. Fix will be backported to F17 but I'm not going to fix this issue in Fedora 16.


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