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)

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