Novell Client does not understand DNS truncated packet from bind 9.1.2

[Kevin Darcy]

miguel.paramio at bt.es wrote:

> Novell client does not understand the way dns truncates packets in tcp
> mode, therefore, the Novell client does not connect to the server.
>
> In RFC 1035 is not clear enough in the way dns should truncate any
> packet in tcp mode. Does anybody know the way to configure dns so it
> can truncate in different ways ?.

TCP is stream-based, not datagram-based, so "truncation" doesn't apply. A
TCP connection can of course be broken, due to network or system
problems, but that's not the same as "truncation"...


- Kevin