Re: [DNSOP] On some terminology in draft-ietf-dnsop-respsize (truncation)

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Wed, 05 March 2014 14:06 UTC

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On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 07:14:31AM -0800,
 Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> wrote 
 a message of 45 lines which said:

> > I don't think that a RRset can be "possibly truncated". Either it is
> > truncated (not sent in its entirety) and the TC bit is set, the
> > resolver does not have to guess, or it is not truncated. There is
> > never an ambiguity. (Unless you use "truncation" in the sloppy sense I
> > criticized above.)
> 
> are you advising (by implication) that a receiver who hears TC=1 with
> ANCOUNT>0 or NSCOUNT>0 or ADCOUNT>0 treat it as a FORMERR?

No. And there is no path from what I wrote to this strange
conclusion. You can have several RRsets in an answer, and some can be
intact and complete.