bind8 or bind9 as tcp only

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Mar 5 22:53:23 UTC 2002


In article <a63h5c$p5 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Dirk <dirk.tanneberger at envia-tel.net> wrote:
>I will use a dns-server behind a firewall.
>These server works as forward only to a server
>in front of the firewall.
>Is there a way to configure bind8 or bind9
>to use tcp only and how can I do this?

No.  And many sites have their own firewall blocking TCP to their DNS
server (I know this isn't a good idea, but they do it anyway).

Can't your firewall allow UDP through from the internal server to the
external one?

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