Re: [Doh] [Ext] a tad confused on response sizes

Ray Bellis <ray@bellis.me.uk> Thu, 07 June 2018 21:31 UTC

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On 05/06/2018 15:48, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> In both cases, the TC bit means "here's the best I got". 'Twas always thus.

There's a school of thought that says a TC response should contain the
absolute bare minimum, per RFC 6891, i.e. the question section, an OPT
RR if there was one in the original query, and *nothing else*.

Ray