DNS - multiple question with a single query

bert hubert bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl
Mon Aug 18 18:04:13 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 07:22:59AM -0700, jota wrote:
> I'm currently developing a DNS utility which is working greatly with a
> single qname in a query. However, if I try to perform a query for
> multiple qnames I got a format error.

As in a number of other places, the reality of DNS does not match RFC 1035.
Nobody knows what multiple questions really mean - if one of them fails to
answer correctly, how would that be signalled etc?

So in practice, multiple questions don't work.

One of the later RFCs might clarify this.

	Bert

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