Re: (ASCEND) DNS resolution bug

["Leon McCalla" <ascend@caribbeanlink.com>]

>> DNS is normally a UDP based protocol, however if the reply is longer than
>> 512 bytes, the RFC recommends establishing a TCP connection.  This is not
a
>> widely implemented portion of the RFC, as few DNS lookups require more
than
>> 512 byte responses.
>>
>> We have considered processing what we could (the first 512 bytes) and
>> ignoring the TC bit.  But that could have unpredictable consequences.
>> The alternative is also unpredictable, since virtually no one else
supports
>> the TCP option, even if we did, it most likely wouldn't work.


This is crap.... do things the right way and stop complaining about what
other companies are doing.

Leon

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