Hi,
As I understand, you made the host tool I'm referring to.
We've been using the host tool from ftp.ripe.net for the hostcounts since I
don't remember when but noticed some strange behaviour this month.
We got a bunch of these errors:
*** incomplete resource record for ppp129-110.islandssimi.is, offset 8186
;; response truncated to 8192 bytes
;; got answer, 23618 bytes:
;; ns_initparse: Message too long
*** expand error in resource record for islandssimi.is, offset 8186
After some diging it looks like this only happens when transfering from
nameservers with version 9 of bind, wich seems to be sending the whole transfer
at once instead of sending one RR at a time like bind 8 does.
I've fixed this by patching host.h and set the MAXPACKET size to what I think
is the maximum in bind 9.
There is probably a better solution to this but this atleast makes things work
correctly for now.
I've Cc'd this to the dns-wg(a)ripe.net as there are probably alot of people there
geting into the same trouble.
Oli
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Olafur Osvaldsson
Systems Administrator
Internet Iceland inc.
Tel: +354 525-5291
Email: oli(a)isnic.is
