New Deadwood snapshot: Better handling of empty packets

I have uploaded a new snapshot of Deadwood which improves Deadwood’s handling of empty packets. A number of broken DNS configurations and servers out on the internet, such as the DNS servers answering the IPv6 (AAAA) query for wwwchase.gslb.bankone.com, send out an empty DNS packet instead of a correctly made SOA-in-NS-section DNS reply when a host name can not be found.

Another situation where a DNS server gives out a reply like this is when someone stops paying for their domain, so the ISP suspends their account by removing the zone for their domain. However, this information has not been changed upstream. As a result, when we contact the DNS servers for a given zone, the DNS servers give us a blank QUERY REFUSED reply.

Since these do happen, Deadwood now pretends that a blank DNS reply is a low-TTL “SOA-in-NS-section” reply. This should speed up some queries, especially on IPv6-capable computers that perform AAAA queries before doing A queries.

It can be looked at here:

http://maradns.org/deadwood/snap/

I should point out that I wrote the code to do this in a way to minimize the amount of code added to Deadwood and to maximize code reuse by having the relevant code in DwRecurse.c call the already created make_synth_not_there_answer() function made a little-more general purpose.