A domain name in the RDATA section written without a trailing dot is
relative to the zone origin (RFC 1035 §5.1), so "www CNAME host" in
example.com. means host.example.com. The qualifier ran on the record
after dns.NewRR had already resolved every RDATA name against the root,
which turns "host" into "host." and makes the two indistinguishable --
relative() saw the trailing dot and left it alone. Every relative CNAME,
NS, MX, PTR, SRV, NAPTR, SOA and SVCB target therefore pointed at the
DNS root, which showed up as a local zone answering a CNAME with
"host." and the alias target holding no local answer. Qualification now
happens in assemble on the token stream, before the record is built,
using a table of the RDATA positions that hold a name per type; names
that already end in a dot stay absolute, so the RPZ targets "." and
"rpz-drop." and the null MX targets are unaffected.
Fix three wrong expectations in the localzone tests while here. The loop
fixture was built with dns.NewRR on "alias.example.com", which cannot
parse because the RR library wants a TTL and class column, so the
expected record now spells them out. The origin-derivation fixture
used "a" as an owner name, and a leading token that names an RR type
reads as an omitted owner, which has no previous owner to inherit on
the first line of a file; the owner is now a word. The merge test
counted the SOA, but it is zone metadata rather than a queryable
record, so two files contribute three records. The holder race test also
looked up a name from the base zone while the holder was serving a store
compiled from other.test., which no answer could satisfy; it now
accepts either store's data.
The zone parser ignored an explicit $TTL and stamped every record with the SOA
minimum instead, so a 60s zone served 3600s and DefaultTTL was wrong too.
RFC 1035 §5.2: an explicit $TTL wins. qualifyRdata was also added to apply
RFC 1035 §5.1 relative-name expansion to RDATA, which is correct but has one
outstanding defect noted below.
make check-go is the tight inner loop: gofmt check, go vet, compile. It uses
go-build rather than build, because build depends on web and shells out to npm
to rebuild a console bundle that rarely changes. check now depends on it, so
the fast path and the CI path cannot drift apart.
Outstanding, not fixed here: a relative CNAME target is still emitted as
"host." instead of "host.example.com.". qualifyRdata is called with the right
origin, and relative() is correct in isolation, so the target is almost
certainly being dot-terminated in Zone.assemble before dns.NewRR ever sees it,
which makes relative() treat it as already absolute. Narrowed to that, not
confirmed — see the localzone test failures.
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