nslookup: giving error when used with UDP

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu Apr 29 15:01:52 UTC 2004


In article <c6r24a$1bmt$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Rich Parkin" <RParkin at ldmi.com> wrote:

> It sounds to me as if something, somewhere is blocking UDP traffic. 
> Either on port 53 specifically or a range of ports.  Seems a bit odd,
> but possible.  Maybe your network administrator was a little too
> aggressive in locking down unwanted traffic.

If something were blocking UDP traffic, he wouldn't get any response at 
all.  He was getting a response containing a SERVFAIL error code.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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