transfer format in bind 8

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a94bpf$dn2 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, zhangmin <zhangmin at canada.com> wrote:
>There is two option in bind8, one is transfer-format many-answers, the other
>one is transfer-format one-answers. When I compare these two configuration
>on the same box, I find the transfer-format many-answers take longer time
>than transfer-format one-answers. It is wired.
>Could you please tell me why?

Because it has two put a DNS response header before each answer.  The
reason one-answer was created was to speed up zone transfers by putting all
the records in a single response message, which only requires a single
header.

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