bytes, to control the size of packets received from
authoritative servers in response to recursive queries.
Valid values are 512 to 4096 (values outside this range
- will be silently adjusted). The default value is 4096.
+ will be silently adjusted to the nearest value within
+ it). The default value is 4096.
</para>
<para>
The usual reason for setting
successes using plain DNS, <command>named</command>
will default to plain DNS for future communications
with that server. (Periodically, <command>named</command>
- will an EDNS query to see if the situation has improved.)
+ will send an EDNS query to see if the situation has
+ improved.)
</para>
<para>
However, if the initial query is successful with
are 512, 1232, 1432, and 4096, but never exceeding
<command>edns-udp-size</command>. (The values 1232 and
1432 are chosen to allow for an IPv4/IPv6 encapsulated
- UDP message to be sent without fragmentation at Ethernet
- and IPv6 network mimimum MTU sizes.)
+ UDP message to be sent without fragmentation at the
+ minimum MTU sizes for Ethernet and IPv6 networks.)
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
Sets the maximum EDNS UDP message size
<command>named</command> will send in bytes.
Valid values are 512 to 4096 (values outside this
- range will be silently adjusted). The default
- value is 4096.
+ range will be silently adjusted to the nearest
+ value within it). The default value is 4096.
</para>
<para>
This value applies to responses sent by a server; to
</para>
<para>
- The optional <command>domain</command> clause specifies
- the namespace to which rate limits will apply. It
- is possible to use different rate limits for different names
- by specifying multiple <command>rate-limit</command> blocks
- with different <command>domain</command> clauses.
- The <command>rate-limit</command> statement's
- <command>domain</command> most closely matches the query
+ The optional <command>domain</command> clause specifies
+ the namespace to which rate limits will apply. It
+ is possible to use different rate limits for different names
+ by specifying multiple <command>rate-limit</command> blocks
+ with different <command>domain</command> clauses.
+ The <command>rate-limit</command> statement's
+ <command>domain</command> most closely matches the query
name will be the one applied to a given query.
</para>
The <command>edns-udp-size</command> option sets the EDNS UDP size
that is advertised by <command>named</command> when querying the remote server.
Valid values are 512 to 4096 bytes (values outside this range will be
- silently adjusted). This option is useful when you wish to
+ silently adjusted to the nearest value within it). This option is
+ useful when you wish to
advertises a different value to this server than the value you
advertise globally, for example, when there is a firewall at the
remote site that is blocking large replies.