Bind-NT 8.2.4/5 - fails on too many results?

[Danny Mayer]

At 10:17 PM 12/17/01, Bill wrote:

>I saw this on BIND-NT 8.2.4 but also tried 8.2.5 on Win2KPro/Sp2.
>Here's some examples of "hangs forever" trying to lookup:
>
>   nslookup scs.yahoo.com
>   nslookup r1-ge5-0.roalok1.mi.home.net
>
>Both of these *should* return at least 24 IPs.  BIND-NT fails to
>return anything (but is non-fatal).  It's like a buffer isn't big
>enough(?)  Can someone confirm they see same?  Does version 9 have the
>same?  Sorry if this problem has been discussed before.

Don't use nslookup, use dig.  It works with dig on BIND 8.2.5.

In BIND 9.2.0 they both work.  The problem is that it's getting a UDP
Truncation and needs to retry in TCP mode. nslookup and dig share a
common backend in BIND 9.2.0.

         Danny