[nsd-users] Possible fragmentation issue transferring larger zones over IPv6?

Anand Buddhdev anandb at ripe.net
Tue Apr 8 07:46:11 UTC 2014


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On 08/04/2014 09:26, W.C.A. Wijngaards wrote:

> But NSD uses TCP for zone transfers?  I thought that PMTU
> discovery does not really apply to TCP?  NSD is unable to create a
> TCP stream and send more than one data-packet worth of data on it?
> And you report that NSD reports a timeout when that happens - like
> no more packets are arriving.  Some sort of stateful firewall that
> has a state problem?

Hi Wouter,

Path MTU (and its discovery) can also affect TCP connections, as far
as I know.

Anand
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