On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:42:52PM +0100, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:
> How stupid are YOU !??!?!?
> DNS uses tcp/53 for zone transfers regarding slave servers, not big packets

WRONG.

should a DNS packet exceed 512 bytes, it is cut and sent incomplete with a
flag telling the client to requery over tcp.
of course this is dog slow, and a good reason to avoid giving out RRsets >
512 bytes.

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