Recently, some servers seems to be only using bufsize=512 and so, for signed zones, always falling back to TCP. This seemed to start about 11th Sep, but got significantly worse after the 6th Oct.

I seem to remember someone saying that the latest version of bind starts with bufsize=512, but presumably it will learn a larger bufsize capability, if declared by the responding server?

Despite us replying with bufsize=4096, all queries from certain hosts always come with bufsize=512 and so, if the zone is signed (as are most ccTLDs we carry), the query is always immediately re-issued over TCP.

The consequence is that this has vastly increased the number of TCP queries we now get.

I have tried unsuccessfully to reproduce this behaviour, but the fact remains that very recently a number of EDNS0/DNSSEC capable servers have started always using bufsize=512 and so repeating every single query (to any signed zone) over TCP.


Obviously this has the potential to vastly increase the load on TLD name servers over time.



Is anyone else seeing this?
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