dig ignores +notcp when doing IXFR (DiG 9.5.0-P2)

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Thu Dec 5 02:22:32 UTC 2013


The options are processed left to right so the +notcp has to be
after the ixfr=<serial>.

	e.g.
		dig ixfr=<serial> zone +notcp

Note, named will for the use of TCP in its UDP response.

Below is a query log of ixfr requests with and without tcp.  'T'
indicates a TCP connection.

05-Dec-2013 13:11:35.681 client ::1#55802 (dv.isc.org): view external: query: dv.isc.org IN IXFR -ET (::1)
05-Dec-2013 13:11:49.664 client ::1#50513 (dv.isc.org): view external: query: dv.isc.org IN IXFR -E (::1)

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