tcp versus udp

[Mark Elkins]

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 07:59 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:00:12AM -0400,
>  Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net> wrote 
>  a message of 39 lines which said:
> 
> > That's nonsense.
> 
> That's Peter Dambier. If you try to fix every mistake he makes, you're
> not over soon...

Some people are there to make us question and test our understanding.

One place that TCP may make sense - if you are involved in a registry
system and the process involves actually checking the information that
you are given, including nameservers (do they exist, do they serve that
zone - correctly?) - it may make a lot of sense to do TCP Digs for the
information (though that should probably be after a failed UDP dig - as
a number of people do insist on disallowing Port 53 TCP).
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