out of data in final pass?

[Lars-Johan Liman]

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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