out of data in final pass?
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Fri Jul 2 15:07:04 UTC 1999
There are BIND versions that have the potential to get
the record counts wrong if they have to truncate the
answer section.
If this happens the querying server will generate a message
like that below.
Mark
> Hi!
>
> I just encountered an error message that I haven't seen before:
>
> Malformed response from [x.y.z.w].53 (out of data in final pass)
>
> Does that mean that the DNS response packet has a header indicating
> that there should be X number of RRs in the body, but there are fewer
> than that, and that the packet therefore so to speak is too short (and
> should possibly have had the truncated bit set?)?
>
> I think I'm talking to an alien server. It's definitely not a modern
> BIND. The resolving host is 8.2.1-REL.
>
> Cheers,
> /Liman
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>
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