The old chestnut - is TCP necessary?

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Marc Thach Xuan Ky <marc.thach at arriwoogle.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Thanks to all who took time on this one.  The cold fact of the matter is
> that in many corporates the security or firewall people have the last
> say, and they do not need to justify themselves.  Rather it is those who
> wish to challenge or change those security policies who need to show a
> demonstrable business benefit.  It seems that in the case of TCP DNS
> queries for Internet hosts that there is none, and that point has now
> been conceded and the firewalls in question will remain closed to TCP
> 53.
> rgds
> Marc TXK

Welcome to the land of obscure bugs and strange side-effects.


You might want to switch location of employment, get from 
fundamentalistic self-approved besserwissers to a pleace where knowledge
and internationlally recognized standards are importent.


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