Mark Andrews wrote:
AXFR seems to work well. I never understood the TCP requirement, as an EDNS packet could easily be large enough to contain the entire response, especially all those small website-only zones. (if it is too small, you set the TC bit). For reliability we have TSIG now. I think it is not something that can be changed, or useful in particular, I just think it is not orthogonal.When RFC 1034 was written many UDP implementations did not generate UDP checksums. TCP checksums were not optional.Mark
For that matter when RFC 1034 was written, EDNS did not exist either. Danny -- to unsubscribe send a message to namedroppers-request@ops.ietf.org with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/>