DNS was [Gllug] IPSec

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 13 Feb 2002, William Palfreman wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Tom Gilbert wrote:
>>The maximum DNS response packet size is 512 bytes afair.
>For udp.  A tcp zone transfer could be much bigger,

Not just a zone transfer. _Any_ DNS response will use TCP if it
exceeds the maximum size for a UDP response. This is particularly
likely with IPV6, owing to the large size of the addresses and some of
the other monkeying around with the DNS that comes with it.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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