BUG in Net_DNS

I wanted to send this email so it would end up in the archives. Feel free to comment if you like, although I am already working on the problem. In Net_DNS <= 0.03, the zone transfers from non-BIND servers will only provide the SOA record. This is caused by name server implementations responding with multiple DNS packets for each resource record within the TCP connection to the server. BIND implements a method for sending all resource records inside of one DNS packet. Some versions of BIND will respond with many packets. In BIND version 8 and 9, this can be configured with the "transfer-format" option. ie: options { ... transfer-format { one-answer | many-answers }; ... }; This will be fixed in 0.04.