In message <[email protected]>, Luis
Silva writes:
> Hi,
> Can anyone tell me the maximum size for DNS messages using TCP? I scanned
> all RFCs that I knew, but I can't find the answer. The problem is that I'm
> integrating my BIND server with a DNS name server which can only send AXFR
> answers with a 65535 maximum message size.
>
> Thank you,
> LS
DNS messages over TCP are limited to 65535 bytes due to
there being only two bytes to encode the length in.
Mark
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