"name truncated?" in BIND 8.2.3

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Jul 26 03:26:10 UTC 2001


There is a limit of 512 bytes to a DNS UDP packet. Most resolvers will
automatically retry a truncated query using TCP. I would have expected nslookup
to do this, but then again, I'm always underestimating the suckiness of that
program...


- Kevin

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> dear all,
> I has an experiment in BIND 8.2.3,if a domain have more than 25 name servers
> in a zone,then I use nslookup to query this domain, the response will
> have "name truncated?" error
> can anyone help me...
>
> best regards,
> eric





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