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Re: Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Van Duzer)
Tue Oct 1 19:53:58 2002

From: David Van Duzer <dvanduzer@infidels.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: neiby@ureach.com
In-Reply-To: <200210012346.TAA04438@www21.ureach.com>
Date: 01 Oct 2002 17:53:58 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:46, John Neiberger wrote:
> 
> We're getting responses from the root servers, the names just 
> aren't resolving.  From a windows NT machine the error is "Non-
> existent Domain".  
> 
> Ah, I just noticed something.  The packet length for the DNS 
> response is supposed to be 510 bytes but it's being truncated 
> to 128.  What the heck would cause that??  
> 
> John


The maximum size of a DNS UDP update is 512 bytes, otherwise TCP will be
utilized.  A SERVFAIL response might very well be only 128 bytes.  You
might want to make sure your root hints file is correct.

-dvd


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