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[dns-wg] How to determine the last message in sequence in DNS TCP responce

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Mukund Sivaraman muks at mukund.org
Wed Feb 27 17:32:15 CET 2019

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 07:21:26PM +0300, Владимир Мартьянов wrote:
> I make DNS zone transfer request (aka AXFR) via TCP to the server. The
> answer is too big (>100Kb), so it could not be sent in one TCP
> message. So the server send me a sequence of messages.
> 
> How can I determine which message is the last? I can't found anything
> about it's count in the first message. I can't found any special flag
> in the last one. I can't found anything about it in RFC1035.
> 
> Could you please explain how to find "end of answer"?

It has a trailing SOA RR. See RFC 5936 section 2.2.

		Mukund

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