[j-nsp] Bizaare bug of the year award

[Wayne E. Bouchard]

Thats a weird one alright.

Only one way to really figure out what happened.
Let there be diff... :-)

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 07:09:08PM -0400, Stefan Fouant wrote:
> Yep that one pretty much takes the cake!
> 
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> On 9/25/08, Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net> wrote:
> > Ok, I just found a Juniper bug that is so strange I can't even bring
> > myself to open a case for it. Not only because I can just imagine trying
> > to explain it to JTAC, but because it is so freaking bizaare and funny
> > that I just have to share it with others. :)
> >
> > It seems that in 9.1+ code there is a bug in the traceroute application,
> > which causes it to query the incorrect reverse DNS for certain IP
> > addresses. The nameservers and the resolv lib on the router itself are
> > fine, you can do a "host x.x.x.x" and get correct results, it is only
> > the traceroute application which is broken. JUNOS 9.0 and earlier is
> > confirmed to be working correctly, JUNOS 9.1/9.2 is confirmed to be
> > broken on all versions.

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Wayne Bouchard
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