Re: <draft-andrews-dns-more-02.txt>

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

> > >    The new size is indicated by the RCODE is the query. The receive buffer
> > >    is 512 * (2 ^ RCODE) bytes in size.
> > 
> > What happens if a forwarder with only 576 bytes of reassembly
> > buffer forwards a request with non-zero ROCDE?
> 
> 	A recursive server should be clearing flags that it knows
> 	nothing about if it isn't it is in violation of RFC1034.

It's not a backward compatible change and it seems to me that,
when forwarding, BIND bcopy()s everything.

> > How can a message larger than a single UDP packet?
> > 
> 	They should work for IPv6 jumbograms.

Jumbograms won't work well without path MTU discovery.

							Masataka Ohta