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Re: stack overflow in getaddrinfo(3) with a small-sized stack in pthreads



On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 08:38:35PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> DNS queries (via UDP) are limited to max 512, as that is what the
> protocol always required, so can be handled by everything (or should be).

Strictly speaking, it is the minimum MTU every IPv4 implementation is
supposed to allow. IPv6 bumped it to 1280.

Joerg


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