Hi Bjørn
Never realised of such compression on answered. Is this is something well documented? Curious. Thanks for sharing. On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 1:30 AM, Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> wrote: > At first I thought they had disabled compression: > > bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig . ns @1.1.1.1|grep SIZE > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 431 > bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig . ns @8.8.8.8|grep SIZE > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 239 > bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig . ns @9.9.9.9|grep SIZE > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 239 > > > But then I noticed that they *do* compress other names: > > bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig net ns @1.1.1.1|grep SIZE > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 253 > bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig net ns @8.8.8.8|grep SIZE > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 253 > bjorn@miraculix:~$ dig net ns @9.9.9.9|grep SIZE > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 253 > > > Which just makes it even more confusing. What's so special about root? > Except for the obvious :-) > > > > Bjørn > > -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com
