diff --git a/test/common/dns.js b/test/common/dns.js
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+/* eslint-disable required-modules */
+'use strict';
+
+// Naïve DNS parser/serializer.
+
+const assert = require('assert');
+const os = require('os');
+
+const types = {
+  A: 1,
+  AAAA: 28,
+  NS: 2,
+  CNAME: 5,
+  SOA: 6,
+  PTR: 12,
+  MX: 15,
+  TXT: 16,
+  ANY: 255
+};
+
+const classes = {
+  IN: 1
+};
+
+function readDomainFromPacket(buffer, offset) {
+  assert.ok(offset < buffer.length);
+  const length = buffer[offset];
+  if (length === 0) {
+    return { nread: 1, domain: '' };
+  } else if ((length & 0xC0) === 0) {
+    offset += 1;
+    const chunk = buffer.toString('ascii', offset, offset + length);
+    // Read the rest of the domain.
+    const { nread, domain } = readDomainFromPacket(buffer, offset + length);
+    return {
+      nread: 1 + length + nread,
+      domain: domain ? `${chunk}.${domain}` : chunk
+    };
+  } else {
+    // Pointer to another part of the packet.
+    assert.strictEqual(length & 0xC0, 0xC0);
+    // eslint-disable-next-line
+    const pointeeOffset = buffer.readUInt16BE(offset) &~ 0xC000;
+    return {
+      nread: 2,
+      domain: readDomainFromPacket(buffer, pointeeOffset)
+    };
+  }
+}
+
+function parseDNSPacket(buffer) {
+  assert.ok(buffer.length > 12);
+
+  const parsed = {
+    id: buffer.readUInt16BE(0),
+    flags: buffer.readUInt16BE(2),
+  };
+
+  const counts = [
+    ['questions', buffer.readUInt16BE(4)],
+    ['answers', buffer.readUInt16BE(6)],
+    ['authorityAnswers', buffer.readUInt16BE(8)],
+    ['additionalRecords', buffer.readUInt16BE(10)]
+  ];
+
+  let offset = 12;
+  for (const [ sectionName, count ] of counts) {
+    parsed[sectionName] = [];
+    for (let i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
+      const { nread, domain } = readDomainFromPacket(buffer, offset);
+      offset += nread;
+
+      const type = buffer.readUInt16BE(offset);
+
+      const rr = {
+        domain,
+        cls: buffer.readUInt16BE(offset + 2),
+      };
+      offset += 4;
+
+      for (const name in types) {
+        if (types[name] === type)
+          rr.type = name;
+      }
+
+      if (sectionName !== 'questions') {
+        rr.ttl = buffer.readInt32BE(offset);
+        const dataLength = buffer.readUInt16BE(offset);
+        offset += 6;
+
+        switch (type) {
+          case types.A:
+            assert.strictEqual(dataLength, 4);
+            rr.address = `${buffer[offset + 0]}.${buffer[offset + 1]}.` +
+                         `${buffer[offset + 2]}.${buffer[offset + 3]}`;
+            break;
+          case types.AAAA:
+            assert.strictEqual(dataLength, 16);
+            rr.address = buffer.toString('hex', offset, offset + 16)
+                               .replace(/(.{4}(?!$))/g, '$1:');
+            break;
+          case types.TXT:
+            {
+              let position = offset;
+              rr.entries = [];
+              while (position < offset + dataLength) {
+                const txtLength = buffer[offset];
+                rr.entries.push(buffer.toString('utf8',
+                                                position + 1,
+                                                position + 1 + txtLength));
+                position += 1 + txtLength;
+              }
+              assert.strictEqual(position, offset + dataLength);
+              break;
+            }
+          case types.MX:
+            {
+              rr.priority = buffer.readInt16BE(buffer, offset);
+              offset += 2;
+              const { nread, domain } = readDomainFromPacket(buffer, offset);
+              rr.exchange = domain;
+              assert.strictEqual(nread, dataLength);
+              break;
+            }
+          case types.NS:
+          case types.CNAME:
+          case types.PTR:
+            {
+              const { nread, domain } = readDomainFromPacket(buffer, offset);
+              rr.value = domain;
+              assert.strictEqual(nread, dataLength);
+              break;
+            }
+          case types.SOA:
+            {
+              const mname = readDomainFromPacket(buffer, offset);
+              const rname = readDomainFromPacket(buffer, offset + mname.nread);
+              rr.nsname = mname.domain;
+              rr.hostmaster = rname.domain;
+              const trailerOffset = offset + mname.nread + rname.nread;
+              rr.serial = buffer.readUInt32BE(trailerOffset);
+              rr.refresh = buffer.readUInt32BE(trailerOffset + 4);
+              rr.retry = buffer.readUInt32BE(trailerOffset + 8);
+              rr.expire = buffer.readUInt32BE(trailerOffset + 12);
+              rr.minttl = buffer.readUInt32BE(trailerOffset + 16);
+
+              assert.strictEqual(trailerOffset + 20, dataLength);
+              break;
+            }
+          default:
+            throw new Error(`Unknown RR type ${rr.type}`);
+        }
+        offset += dataLength;
+      }
+
+      parsed[sectionName].push(rr);
+
+      assert.ok(offset <= buffer.length);
+    }
+  }
+
+  assert.strictEqual(offset, buffer.length);
+  return parsed;
+}
+
+function writeIPv6(ip) {
+  const parts = ip.replace(/^:|:$/g, '').split(':');
+  const buf = Buffer.alloc(16);
+
+  let offset = 0;
+  for (const part of parts) {
+    if (part === '') {
+      offset += 16 - 2 * (parts.length - 1);
+    } else {
+      buf.writeUInt16BE(parseInt(part, 16), offset);
+      offset += 2;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return buf;
+}
+
+function writeDomainName(domain) {
+  return Buffer.concat(domain.split('.').map((label) => {
+    assert(label.length < 64);
+    return Buffer.concat([
+      Buffer.from([label.length]),
+      Buffer.from(label, 'ascii')
+    ]);
+  }).concat([Buffer.alloc(1)]));
+}
+
+function writeDNSPacket(parsed) {
+  const buffers = [];
+  const kStandardResponseFlags = 0x8180;
+
+  buffers.push(new Uint16Array([
+    parsed.id,
+    parsed.flags === undefined ? kStandardResponseFlags : parsed.flags,
+    parsed.questions && parsed.questions.length,
+    parsed.answers && parsed.answers.length,
+    parsed.authorityAnswers && parsed.authorityAnswers.length,
+    parsed.additionalRecords && parsed.additionalRecords.length,
+  ]));
+
+  for (const q of parsed.questions) {
+    assert(types[q.type]);
+    buffers.push(writeDomainName(q.domain));
+    buffers.push(new Uint16Array([
+      types[q.type],
+      q.cls === undefined ? classes.IN : q.cls
+    ]));
+  }
+
+  for (const rr of [].concat(parsed.answers,
+                             parsed.authorityAnswers,
+                             parsed.additionalRecords)) {
+    if (!rr) continue;
+
+    assert(types[rr.type]);
+    buffers.push(writeDomainName(rr.domain));
+    buffers.push(new Uint16Array([
+      types[rr.type],
+      rr.cls === undefined ? classes.IN : rr.cls
+    ]));
+    buffers.push(new Int32Array([rr.ttl]));
+
+    const rdLengthBuf = new Uint16Array(1);
+    buffers.push(rdLengthBuf);
+
+    switch (rr.type) {
+      case 'A':
+        rdLengthBuf[0] = 4;
+        buffers.push(new Uint8Array(rr.address.split('.')));
+        break;
+      case 'AAAA':
+        rdLengthBuf[0] = 16;
+        buffers.push(writeIPv6(rr.address));
+        break;
+      case 'TXT':
+        const total = rr.entries.map((s) => s.length).reduce((a, b) => a + b);
+        // Total length of all strings + 1 byte each for their lengths.
+        rdLengthBuf[0] = rr.entries.length + total;
+        for (const txt of rr.entries) {
+          buffers.push(new Uint8Array([Buffer.byteLength(txt)]));
+          buffers.push(Buffer.from(txt));
+        }
+        break;
+      case 'MX':
+        rdLengthBuf[0] = 2;
+        buffers.push(new Uint16Array([rr.priority]));
+        // fall through
+      case 'NS':
+      case 'CNAME':
+      case 'PTR':
+        {
+          const domain = writeDomainName(rr.exchange || rr.value);
+          rdLengthBuf[0] += domain.length;
+          buffers.push(domain);
+          break;
+        }
+      case 'SOA':
+        {
+          const mname = writeDomainName(rr.nsname);
+          const rname = writeDomainName(rr.hostmaster);
+          rdLengthBuf[0] = mname.length + rname.length + 20;
+          buffers.push(mname, rname);
+          buffers.push(new Uint32Array([
+            rr.serial, rr.refresh, rr.retry, rr.expire, rr.minttl
+          ]));
+          break;
+        }
+      default:
+        throw new Error(`Unknown RR type ${rr.type}`);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return Buffer.concat(buffers.map((typedArray) => {
+    const buf = Buffer.from(typedArray.buffer,
+                            typedArray.byteOffset,
+                            typedArray.byteLength);
+    if (os.endianness() === 'LE') {
+      if (typedArray.BYTES_PER_ELEMENT === 2) buf.swap16();
+      if (typedArray.BYTES_PER_ELEMENT === 4) buf.swap32();
+    }
+    return buf;
+  }));
+}
+
+module.exports = { types, classes, writeDNSPacket, parseDNSPacket };
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-dns-resolveany-bad-ancount.js b/test/parallel/test-dns-resolveany-bad-ancount.js
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+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+const dnstools = require('../common/dns');
+const dns = require('dns');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const dgram = require('dgram');
+
+const server = dgram.createSocket('udp4');
+
+server.on('message', common.mustCall((msg, { address, port }) => {
+  const parsed = dnstools.parseDNSPacket(msg);
+  const domain = parsed.questions[0].domain;
+  assert.strictEqual(domain, 'example.org');
+
+  const buf = dnstools.writeDNSPacket({
+    id: parsed.id,
+    questions: parsed.questions,
+    answers: { type: 'A', address: '1.2.3.4', ttl: 123, domain },
+  });
+  // Overwrite the # of answers with 2, which is incorrect.
+  buf.writeUInt16LE(2, 6);
+  server.send(buf, port, address);
+}));
+
+server.bind(0, common.mustCall(() => {
+  const address = server.address();
+  dns.setServers([`127.0.0.1:${address.port}`]);
+
+  dns.resolveAny('example.org', common.mustCall((err) => {
+    assert.strictEqual(err.code, 'EBADRESP');
+    assert.strictEqual(err.syscall, 'queryAny');
+    assert.strictEqual(err.hostname, 'example.org');
+    server.close();
+  }));
+}));
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-dns-resolveany.js b/test/parallel/test-dns-resolveany.js
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+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+const dnstools = require('../common/dns');
+const dns = require('dns');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const dgram = require('dgram');
+
+const answers = [
+  { type: 'A', address: '1.2.3.4', ttl: 123 },
+  { type: 'AAAA', address: '::42', ttl: 123 },
+  { type: 'MX', priority: 42, exchange: 'foobar.com', ttl: 124 },
+  { type: 'NS', value: 'foobar.org', ttl: 457 },
+  { type: 'TXT', entries: [ 'v=spf1 ~all', 'xyz' ] },
+  { type: 'PTR', value: 'baz.org', ttl: 987 },
+  {
+    type: 'SOA',
+    nsname: 'ns1.example.com',
+    hostmaster: 'admin.example.com',
+    serial: 156696742,
+    refresh: 900,
+    retry: 900,
+    expire: 1800,
+    minttl: 60
+  },
+];
+
+const server = dgram.createSocket('udp4');
+
+server.on('message', common.mustCall((msg, { address, port }) => {
+  const parsed = dnstools.parseDNSPacket(msg);
+  const domain = parsed.questions[0].domain;
+  assert.strictEqual(domain, 'example.org');
+
+  server.send(dnstools.writeDNSPacket({
+    id: parsed.id,
+    questions: parsed.questions,
+    answers: answers.map((answer) => Object.assign({ domain }, answer)),
+  }), port, address);
+}));
+
+server.bind(0, common.mustCall(() => {
+  const address = server.address();
+  dns.setServers([`127.0.0.1:${address.port}`]);
+
+  dns.resolveAny('example.org', common.mustCall((err, res) => {
+    assert.ifError(err);
+    // Compare copies with ttl removed, c-ares fiddles with that value.
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(
+        res.map((r) => Object.assign({}, r, { ttl: null })),
+        answers.map((r) => Object.assign({}, r, { ttl: null })));
+    server.close();
+  }));
+}));