On 5/25/2012 1:38 AM, Ryan Rawdon wrote: > ... So here are the questions I am left with right now: > - Should a packet with the truncate bit set contain answers, or is this > optional? I'm guessing optional, but could see arguments for the UDP > response with the truncate bit containing at least the first few RRs
the answers are optional. > - Should a packet with the truncate bit set have the field for the number of > Answers reflect how many answers are in that packet, or how many are in the > actual forthcoming response? I believe that it should contain the number of > RRs contained in the UDP response itself, not the full answer to the query - > and this is where I believe the Amazon response is malformed. In the UDP > response it says there are 24 answer RRs when there are zero the header counts must match the actual contents but the prospective/desired contents, or else the response is malformed. paul -- "I suspect I'm not known as a font of optimism." (VJS, 2012) _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
