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Insufficient handling of an interface that has several IPs #120

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Let's create a simple DNS server:

#!/usr/bin/env node
 
var dns = require('native-dns');
var dns_server = dns.createServer();
 
dns_server.on('request', function(request, response) {
    try {
        console.log(request.question);
 
        response.answer.push(dns.TXT({
            name: request.question[0].name,
            data: ['TXT TXT TXT'],
            ttl: 30,
        }));
 
        response.send();
    } catch (e) {}
});
 
dns_server.on('error', function(err, buff, req, res) {
    console.log(err.stack);
});
 
dns_server.serve(53);

Now the address 0.0.0.0:53 will be bound.

If 0.0.0.0 corresponds to two IP addresses, for example 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.3, the code wouldn't handle this situation properly. It will receive DNS queries for 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.3, but will not properly respond to queries for 10.0.0.3.

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