tcp/udp, clarification please
Barry Margolin
barmar at genuity.net
Wed Oct 10 18:35:40 UTC 2001
In article <9q22d1$nl3 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Michael Kjorling <michael at kjorling.com> wrote:
>I can't belive so many people want to "secure" their DNS servers by
>only allowing UDP... it causes major trouble and at the _very_ least
Believe it.
>serious delays if the response is too big to fit into a single UDP
>packet and TCP is blocked.
It's very unlikely that the sites that block UDP would ever generate a
response that exceeds 500 bytes.
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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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