Severity

E (error)

Message text

RR exceeds blok boundary (%d < %d)

Description

Announced length of received DNS block (the first number in the parenthesis) is not sufficient for all resource records (RRs). One of them would have heading or data (according to declared data length) at position (the second number in the parenthesis) behind the end of the block.

Type, number and offset of RR is printed in the following log message.

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

DNSR-719(6), DNSE-790(6), DNSE-791(6), logging(7)

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