Bugfix: requests might hang if resolver was used [...]

[Maxim Konovalov]

On 8/26/14 5:18 PM, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> 
> On 8/26/14 12:47 PM, Jason Woods wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Where do I need to ask if a bug fix will be treated as major and
>> ported to the 1.6 feature stable branch?
>>
>> Specifically, the following is having a significant impact for us,
>> and makes using resolver extremely unstable with proxy_pass and
>> variables.
>>
>> *) Bugfix: requests might hang if resolver was used and a DNS server
>>        returned a malformed response; the bug had appeared in 1.5.8.
>>
>> We're testing 1.7 mainline, but I would expect that due to existence
>> and availability of 1.6, things like this would be fixed in that
>> branch too, since it's still a "current" version?
>>
> We are working now on the another bugfix in the nginx resolver code
> and will consider backporting these patches to 1.6.2 (ETA ~2 weeks).
> 
Done: http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.6

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Maxim Konovalov
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