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[Calum McAlinden <calum AT mcalinden.me.uk>]

On 19 Feb 2015 21:53, "Fusl Dash" <opennic AT lists.dedilink.eu> wrote
> Hi,
>
> I saw people complaining in #opennic that some of my servers fail at
> resolving the domain www.reddit.com so it won't load in the browser
> but returns correct looking results including a text saying ";;
> Truncated, retrying in TCP mode." when using dig. Are there maybe some
> people reading this mailing list that got this exact result when using
> my Tier2 servers?
>
> I'm currently trying to fix this issue but can't reproduce it.
> Whatever I'm trying (Windows VM, Linux VM with openSUSE, OS X on my
> MacBook), it just works fine everywhere.
>
> In case *you* had this exact same problem and due to that switched to
> another Tier2 server, it would be cool if you can contact me in IRC
> (my username is Fusl, just message me) or by email (root AT meo.ws).

I have seen this issue on a few servers. I believe it's caused by having a low max reply size of the server, which can be tested on the t2 test page. The only reason it happens with reddit is because they have loads of A records which push the answer section over the limit.