[Pdns-users] greater number of truncated replies with pdns_recursor?

[Michael Loftis]

--On March 25, 2006 11:57:24 AM +0100 bert hubert 
<bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:01:57PM -0800, Alan Hodgson wrote:
>> On March 24, 2006 11:39 am, bert hubert <bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl>
>> wrote:
>> > In other words, the omit all records that are optional and make their
>> > answer fit in 512 bytes.
>
> As truncating and especially fallback on TCP is no fun, I've decided to
> implement the "don't truncate for additional records behaviour". A one
> line patch:
>
> http://wiki.powerdns.com/projects/trac/changeset/616
>
> Thanks for reporting this!
>
> I do note that bind crams in 2 more records in the same answer, which is
> impressive. To make PowerDNS follow that behaviour would require a lot of
> work, for uncertain benefit, so I'm not making that effort now.
>
> Build 616 will appear on http://svn.powerdns.com/snapshots/616 shortly
> (few minutes after this post) if you want to verify the fix, which I would
> appreciate.

Yeah, I lean towards earthlink-has-urgent-need-of-cluepon as being the real 
solution to the whole problem.

>
> Thanks!
>
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