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On 10-jan-05, at 0:08, Mark Andrews wrote:
> Well DNS (not EDNS) is limited to 512 octets so you unless there
> are real links (not ones artificially constrained to demonstrate
> a issue) this should not be a issue in practice.
No, fortunately not. But it's still VERY wrong and it must be fixed.
> Note for IPv6 one sets IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU on the UDP socket so this
> should be a non-issue there.
In IPv6 PMTUD is handled at the IP layer so the second packet that's
too large will be fragmented at the source, so there is no issue.
