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Windows Server DNS response cut short

asked 2025-02-22 14:29:27 +0000

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updated 2025-02-22 14:58:10 +0000

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Hi

Looks like our internal DNS servers (W2019) are robbing clients of 257 bytes in DNS traffic. As a result, clients can't get to some of the websites where DNS answers exceed 176 bytes.

Is there a Windows server setting that limits DNS traffic to 176 bytes? We are not seeing this 176 bytes limit on other protocols.

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Are you sure it is truncated, there could be reassembly of IP fragments at work? Also, is the "truncated" flag set in the response? If so, it is the duty of the client to re-request the DNS entry, but now over TCP to get the full response.

Are you able to share the pcap for closer inspection?

SYN-bit gravatar imageSYN-bit ( 2025-02-22 15:21:41 +0000 )edit

Here is a pcap from a good working environment. Server (192.168.20.5) gets a 433 byte response from 1.1.1.1 and responds to the client with a 422 byte packet.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TYma...

Working on getting bad-dns.pacp shared

net_tech gravatar imagenet_tech ( 2025-02-22 16:22:26 +0000 )edit

Capture has been wranglered

97.205.219.232 is 1.1.1.1,
172.16.96.78 - Client, 172.21.59.11 - Server

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fYz8...

net_tech gravatar imagenet_tech ( 2025-02-22 16:58:02 +0000 )edit

@SYN-bit,

No, Truncated flag is 0. = : Message is not truncated

Someone asked for this behavior here -> https://serverfault.com/questions/116...

I don't know how, but my DNS server is doing exactly what was asked on serverfault post

net_tech gravatar imagenet_tech ( 2025-02-22 17:10:26 +0000 )edit

Is this a CNAME chaining issue or CNAME chaining limit configured on the 172.21.59.11 windows server?

net_tech gravatar imagenet_tech ( 2025-02-22 18:23:17 +0000 )edit

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answered 2025-02-23 02:49:51 +0000

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privatelink.azure-api.net zone was present on the internal DNS server for other reasons, but didn't have the CNAME record that was in the chain. Adding the CNAME internally resolved the issue.

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