From: "Geo" 


> It is what I was saying about a DNS query. Imagine that I send a query for
> www.nls.net. Your DNS server could send a 50K byte reply (listing 200
> alternate IP addresses and additional info). My DNS server would have to
> have a buffer that could hold the entire 50KB message, and it would have
> to send it to me, and my client would need a buffer that can hold the 50KB
> message.

Ok but when you talk about buffers, routers use buffers too, isn't that the
reason for checking MTU?

Geo.

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