DNS UDP or TCP?

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Thu Sep 27 01:09:24 UTC 2001


At 5:56 PM -0600 9/26/01, Cricket Liu wrote:

>  Actually, there are (or have been) some resolvers that use
>  TCP by default.  I think an older AIX resolver fell into this
>  category, as did the resolver on the HP1000.

	Really?  I had absolutely no idea.  Man, this just further 
illustrates how dain-bramaged people really are when they block all 
TCP to port 53, thinking that this will keep them secure from having 
their entire zone transferred.  Sigh....

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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