Re: [Doh] [Ext] DNS Camel thoughts: TC and message size

Dave Lawrence <tale@dd.org> Fri, 08 June 2018 03:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Doh] [Ext] DNS Camel thoughts: TC and message size
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Robert Edmonds writes:
> > There is no intrinsic limit to the limit of a DNS message,
> 
> No, there is an intrinsic limit to the size of a DNS message. If I'm not
> mistaken:

Right, you are absolutely correct.  I was being lazy and not doing the
math to get "number much larger than 64k".

> 12 + 1*(255+2+2) + 3*65535*(255+2+2+4+2+65535) = 12936609271 octets, or,
> about 13 gigs.