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@ripe.net as there are probably alot of people there geting into the same trouble. Oli -- Olafur Osvaldsson Systems Administrator Internet Iceland inc. Tel: +354 525-5291 Email: oli@isnic.is