How many nameservers?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <gm7ksm$198c$1 at sf1.isc.org>, bsfinkel at anl.gov wrote:

> One downside - if you have many NS records, then they might not all
> fit in one UDP packet (the Authority and/or Addition sections of a
> response to a DNS query).  This will cause the protocol to revert
> to TCP.

Truncation isn't supposed to happen if you overflow in the Additional 
section, is it?  These records are already optional, so they can be left 
out if it would cause the packet to exceed the maximum UDP size.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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