help with FC3 and Bugzilla Bug 161181 DNS truncation

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 16:54 -0700, Skunk Worx wrote:
> My FC3 local caching DNS is placing the AUTHORITY section in the 
> responses. I think this exceeds a certain size threshold and I get this :
> 
> # dig @10.0.0.2 www.wikipedia.org
> ;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
> 
> Even though the response has all the IPs listed, and no error in the 
> Header, ping and firefox both puke, unable to resolve the IP address.
> 
> When I go directly to my ISP's dns, it is fine, I assume because there 
> is no lengthy AUTHORITY section in their reply.

What lengthy AUTHORITY section? I'm getting just this:

$ dig www.wikipedia.org

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> www.wikipedia.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53249
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.wikipedia.org.             IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.wikipedia.org.      3600    IN      CNAME   rr.wikimedia.org.
rr.wikimedia.org.       600     IN      CNAME   rr.knams.wikimedia.org.
rr.knams.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       145.97.39.133
rr.knams.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       145.97.39.134
rr.knams.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       145.97.39.135
rr.knams.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       145.97.39.136
rr.knams.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       145.97.39.137
rr.knams.wikimedia.org. 3600    IN      A       145.97.39.138

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
wikimedia.org.          62149   IN      NS      ns1.wikimedia.org.
wikimedia.org.          62149   IN      NS      ns2.wikimedia.org.
wikimedia.org.          62149   IN      NS      ns0.wikimedia.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns0.wikimedia.org.      62149   IN      A       207.142.131.207
ns1.wikimedia.org.      62149   IN      A       207.142.131.208
ns2.wikimedia.org.      62149   IN      A       145.97.39.158

;; Query time: 284 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.11#53(192.168.2.11)
;; WHEN: Mon Aug 22 07:30:09 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 283

Seems a reasonably short AUTHORITY section to me. Are you getting back
something different?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>