BIND 9.11 no longer respects edns-udp-size?

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Tue Mar 12 15:57:15 UTC 2019


>> Stéphane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
>>> Does minimal-responses make sense for an authoritative name server?
>>> (Note there was no glue involved.)

>On Mar 11, 2019, at 7:12 AM, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
>> I think it helps reduce fragmentation if the max-udp-size is larger than
>> the MSS, but apart from that it probably doesn't make much difference.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, clients and resolvers generally re-query for
>> additional records when they are needed, and they already have the
>> delegation records which should be the same as the authority records, so
>> it seems pointless to me to add records to authoritative responses when
>> they aren't used.

On 12.03.19 08:18, Chris Buxton wrote:
>Enabling minimal-responses on an authoritative server will break any other
> server with a stub zone declaration with this authoritative server listed
> as master.  The implementation of stub zones assumes that an SOA query
> will retrieve all of the required information (SOA, NS, and supporting
> A/AAAA records) to successfully insert the zone apex into the cache.

isn't SOA response limited in an ongoing RFC draft?
that would bereak stub zones too...

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