"host" command fails when too many RR

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri Sep 22 01:50:06 UTC 2000


	I would guess that you have a old version of host w/ 8k buffers.
	Does "dig axfr forwarddomain @primary-server" fail?

	Mark
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a forward zone file with about 289 lines in it, which is accepted
> correctly by named on the primary, and by the zone transfers to the
> secondaries.
> 
> >From any host, even on the primary, when issuing the command "host -l
> <forwarddomain> <primary-server>", this command fails when even a single
> line is added to the forward zone file.
> 
> The error message given by the "host" command is
> 
>  *** incomplete resource record for <somehost>.<forwarddomain>, offset
> 8188
> 
> It is definately a size limit, because removing that single line again
> from the forward zone file, makes the "host" command work again. It does
> not matter what line I add, just this one more stops "host" from being
> successful.
> 
> I run BIND 8.2.2 on Solaris 7, the network trace (with "snoop") shows
> that the info transfer between "host" and the "named"  program is
> correclty using TCP (and not UDP) since the size of the data exceeds the
> threshold for using UDP.
> 
> Any hints or advises are welcome, because we cannot add anything into
> our DNS zone files anymore until resolved !
> 
> Thanks in advance !
> 
> Rob De Langhe
> Global TeleSystems
> Belgium
> rob.delanghe at gtsgroup.com
> 
> 
> 
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