Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.427 (Entity 5.427) RT-Send-CC: X-RT-Original-Encoding: iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 256 From the kerberos list discussion, the platform this behavior was observed on was Solaris 10 / x86. The obvious possibility is that the resolver is returning -1 when the response is too big for the buffer, instead of the size of the response as we expect.