middleware/caching (#360)

Add the rcode to the cached item and use this when we synthesize the
answer again. We could also infer the rcode from the reassembled
message, but this seems easier and is only an integer.

Also set the autoritative bit to 0 for all from-cache answers.

Fixes 357

2 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/middleware/cache/cache_test.go b/middleware/cache/cache_test.go
index 7e80c66e0..31aeaa8ac 100644
--- a/middleware/cache/cache_test.go
+++ b/middleware/cache/cache_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package cache
 
 import (
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"log"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -64,12 +66,30 @@ var cacheTestCases = []cacheTestCase{
 		},
 		in: test.Case{},
 	},
+	{
+		RecursionAvailable: true, Authoritative: true,
+		Case: test.Case{
+			Rcode: dns.RcodeNameError,
+			Qname: "example.org.", Qtype: dns.TypeA,
+			Ns: []dns.RR{
+				test.SOA("example.org. 3600 IN	SOA	sns.dns.icann.org. noc.dns.icann.org. 2016082540 7200 3600 1209600 3600"),
+			},
+		},
+		in: test.Case{
+			Rcode: dns.RcodeNameError,
+			Qname: "example.org.", Qtype: dns.TypeA,
+			Ns: []dns.RR{
+				test.SOA("example.org. 3600 IN	SOA	sns.dns.icann.org. noc.dns.icann.org. 2016082540 7200 3600 1209600 3600"),
+			},
+		},
+	},
 }
 
 func cacheMsg(m *dns.Msg, tc cacheTestCase) *dns.Msg {
 	m.RecursionAvailable = tc.RecursionAvailable
 	m.AuthenticatedData = tc.AuthenticatedData
 	m.Authoritative = tc.Authoritative
+	m.Rcode = tc.Rcode
 	m.Truncated = tc.Truncated
 	m.Answer = tc.in.Answer
 	m.Ns = tc.in.Ns
@@ -89,6 +109,8 @@ func newTestCache(ttl time.Duration) (*Cache, *ResponseWriter) {
 func TestCache(t *testing.T) {
 	c, crr := newTestCache(maxTTL)
 
+	log.SetOutput(ioutil.Discard)
+
 	for _, tc := range cacheTestCases {
 		m := tc.in.Msg()
 		m = cacheMsg(m, tc)
diff --git a/middleware/cache/item.go b/middleware/cache/item.go
index d2cb79520..f2d05f0a0 100644
--- a/middleware/cache/item.go
+++ b/middleware/cache/item.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 type item struct {
+	Rcode              int
 	Authoritative      bool
 	AuthenticatedData  bool
 	RecursionAvailable bool
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ type item struct {
 
 func newItem(m *dns.Msg, d time.Duration) *item {
 	i := new(item)
+	i.Rcode = m.Rcode
 	i.Authoritative = m.Authoritative
 	i.AuthenticatedData = m.AuthenticatedData
 	i.RecursionAvailable = m.RecursionAvailable
@@ -45,12 +47,15 @@ func newItem(m *dns.Msg, d time.Duration) *item {
 }
 
 // toMsg turns i into a message, it tailers the reply to m.
+// The Autoritative bit is always set to 0, because the answer is from the cache.
 func (i *item) toMsg(m *dns.Msg) *dns.Msg {
 	m1 := new(dns.Msg)
 	m1.SetReply(m)
-	m1.Authoritative = i.Authoritative
+
+	m1.Authoritative = false
 	m1.AuthenticatedData = i.AuthenticatedData
 	m1.RecursionAvailable = i.RecursionAvailable
+	m1.Rcode = i.Rcode
 	m1.Compress = true
 
 	m1.Answer = i.Answer