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I just came across this item in the nos-bbs list (which discusses ham
radio versions of KA9Q) which looks as if it needs fixing in Demon's
version:


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From: "Barry Siegfried [44.64.20.101]" <nosbbs@slip.k2mf.ampr.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <nos-bbs@hydra.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: Can of Worms?
X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0 -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas
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[johns@ccdbbs.com wrote]:

> I run the Demon Internet Version of ka9q.nos 2.16d.
> I use this version because I run One nos machine for
> my sub net routing and Primary DNS and a second machine
> for my SMTP server and secondary DNS.  Both machines
> run under Lantastic and NDIS packet drivers.
> For a while I had the DNS running fine then it started
> to trash the machines.  I have discovered that whenever
> i do a dns lookup for say shareware.com or discovery.com
> it will blow up.  It appears that the DNS table sent is
> just to much for it to handle.
> I asked once before if there was a version of nos that
> would run ok and one was being worked on... Is it done
> Yet?

Yes.  This was fixed last October when I came to the independent
conclusion that your description above was exactly what was
happening when the DNS looked up MX records for certain domains
and those domains were returning too much data to fit inside one
UDP reply packet.  Changes were made to proc_query() in DOMAIN.C
and sendto() in SOCKUSER.C to accommodate replies of this type.

The fixed code was then recently ported to JNOS 1.11X by James,
N5KNX.

73, de Barry, K2MF >>
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          <|>       Barry Siegfried
+---------/-\------------------------------+
| Internet | bgs@intac.com / bgs@intac.net |
| Amprnet  | k2mf@gw.k2mf.ampr.org         |
| PBBS     | k2mf@k2bjg.#nnj.nj.usa.na     |
+----------+-------------------------------+
| WWW      | http://www.intac.com/~bgs     |
+----------+-------------------------------+

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The fixed code alluded to here (in JNOS 1.11x) is obtainable on
ftp.ucsd.edu in /hamradio/packet/tcpip/incoming. 

(In case you didn't know, JNOS is probably the most actively developed
of all the many flavours of KA9Q today. If Demon were considering
further development in this area, JNOS is the place to look for ideas).

Ian
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