I'm sorry to keep replying to myself but I believe I've found the line of code that is causing this issue. Looking at validator.c, in the check_deadlock function, 9.12.0rc1 says:
... if (parent->event != NULL && parent->event->type == type && dns_name_equal(parent->event->name, name) && ... 9.12.0rc3 and above says: ... if (parent->event != NULL && (parent->event->type == type || parent->event->type == dns_rdatatype_cname) && dns_name_equal(parent->event->name, name) && ... By removing "parent->event->type == dns_rdatatype_cname)" (and adjusting the rest of the if statement appropriately) the query "dig ns rs.dns-oarc.net" works. I see this commit related to this line of code: https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/commit/2b51d5874c49ac823890b88824290fbf1c18f2cc I'm sure this line of code is important, otherwise it wouldn't be there and I don't know enough to be removing random bits of code, so of course I'd never run this in production. Still I want to understand why this is happening and if it’s a bug or me not understanding DNS properly. As always thank you for your time! -Nick _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users