packet size

Niall O'Reilly niall.oreilly at ucd.ie
Wed Sep 11 16:36:43 UTC 2013


On 11 Sep 2013, at 17:24, Maria Iano wrote:

> What does it mean when the edns0 response to a dig says the overall packet size will be one value

	Not "will be one value" but "can be no more than that value".

> but the message size reported is different.

	That's the actual size of the response message.
	It depends on what you requested, and what data was
	sent in the response.

> For example in this reponse the OPT PSEUDOSECTION says udp: 4096 but at the end it says MSG SIZE  rcvd: 275.

	I hope this helps.

	/Niall



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