Originally RBT node stored three lowest bits from dns_name_t attributes.
This had a curious side-effect noticed by Tony Finch:
If you create an rbt node from a DYNAMIC name then the flag will be
propagated through dns_rbt_namefromnode() ... if you subsequently call
dns_name_free() it will try to isc_mem_put() a piece of an rbt node ...
but dns_name_free() REQUIRE()s that the name is dynamic so in the usual
case where rbt nodes are created from non-dynamic names, this kind of
code will fail an assertion.
This is a bug it dates back to june 1999 when NAMEATTR_DYNAMIC was
invented.
Apparently it does not happen often :-)
I'm planning to get rid of DNS_NAMEATTR_ definitions and bit operations,
so removal of this "three-bit-subset" assignment is a first step.
We can keep only the ABSOLUTE flag in RBT node and nothing else because
names attached to rbt nodes are always readonly: The internal node_name()
function always sets the NAMEATTR_READONLY when making a dns_name that
refers to the node's name, so the READONLY flag will be set in the name
returned by dns_rbt_namefromnode().