What is TCP_truncated ? (fwd)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9hs62q$eno at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Simon Waters  <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Suryadi wrote:
>> 
>> What is ns_resp TCP_truncated means ?
>
>> Jul  3 12:25:11 ns3 named[10727]: ns_resp: TCP truncated:
>"29.115.254.207.in-addr.arpa" IN PTR from [207.254.115.3].53
>
>The look up is returning more than 500 octets, so the DNS
>response is truncated and a TCP request is sent rather than
>UDP.

It means more than that.  It means that when it switched to TCP, the answer
*still* couldn't fit, so it was truncated again.

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