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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Odd DNS responses for www.neopets.com
David Russell wrote: > > Maybe it's just me, but isn't there something odd about a DNS query > > coming back with 78 entries for the same host? It sends back an UDP > > packet that gets truncated and the DNS resolver reverts to TCP to get > > the full list. [snip] > > > > It seems to cause problems with Windows clients and/or Windows DNS > > servers. Seems like overkill. > > > I feel your pain because I use a DNS module in my scripts that craps out > when it sees one of these truncated packets, but then the problem is with > the client and not DNS. It is too bad that the DNS packet size can't be > increased to 1500B. It can, RFC2671. -- Crist J. Clark | [email protected] | [email protected] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | [email protected]
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