Re: [Doh] special meta QTYPEs

[Tony Finch <[e-mail]>]

Dave Lawrence <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Tony Finch writes:
> > I don't think it's possible to fit AXFR or IXFR into
> > DoH because their responses involve multiple DNS messages.
>
> Adding my comment about *XFR from a different thread to this thread
> too, for tracking.
>
> Strictly speaking, that's not fully accurate.  I have plenty of zones
> that fit in a single DNS/TCP message when sent over AXFR, and
> DNS/HTTPS would cover the rest quite easily if left in its current
> form.  Adding a restriction on message lengths would make this more
> complicated.

I was speaking in general terms, of course :-) An AXFR client has to be
prepared to handle multiple messages in a response, regardless of the size
of the zone, so a DoH proxy that tries to support AXFR cannot avoid
learning how to cope with multi-message answers from its upstream DNS
server. And it isn't always possible to de-fragment an AXFR response: e.g.
it will break any TSIG authentication.

And as Robert Edmonds pointed out, even if you lift the 64K byte message
size limit, there is still a limit of 64K records (the zone contents are
transferred using the answer section only), and I have plenty of zones
which are bigger than that :-)

Tony.
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