Bug#835402: Net::DNS dies: Can't call method "zclass" on an undefined value

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Control: forwarded -1 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=105491
Control: found -1 0.81-2+deb8u1
Control: notfound -1 20130404-1
Control: fixed -1 1.05-1

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:37:41AM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> Package: libnet-dns-perl
> Version: 20130404-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I tried:
> 
> $ fpdns 199.3.18.24
> Can't call method "zclass" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Net/DNS/Packet.pm line 474.
> 
> This appears to be related to this fpdns bug report
> 
> https://github.com/kirei/fpdns/issues/8
> 
> which refers to this bug report in Net::DNS
> 
> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=105491
> 
> see also the brief mailing list discussion at
> 
> https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/net-dns-users/2015/000195.html

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the report. I assume that you found this using version
0.81-2+deb8u1.

It might be possible to fix this in a future point release although
I couldn't immediately see the relevant commit in 
http://www.net-dns.org/svn/net-dns/trunk.

Cheers,
Dominic.

> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.4
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages fpdns depends on:
> ii  libio-socket-inet6-perl      2.72-1
> ii  libnet-dns-fingerprint-perl  20130404-1