Severity

A (alert)

Message text

Too many RRs announced (%d > %d)

Description

Received DNS message contains such an amount of RRs (printed) that is larger than allowed limit (printed).

The limit is 50 RRs for a query, for responses it can be set by REQUEST-ACL.RR-LIMIT configuration item.

In case of query, request is rejected with FormErr response code.

In case of reply, whole answer is ignored and next server is tried.

See also

logging(7)

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