<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I've a system with two interfaces; a management and a data interface. My default route is set out to the data interface. </div><div><br></div><div>doing a <br></div><div><br></div><div>dig +tcp someIP.com @some.resolver <br></div><div><br></div><div>works fine.</div><div><br></div><div>If I want a UDP based query, I have to specify -b option and provide IP of the interface otherwise it fails.</div><div><br></div><div>Why is that?</div><div><br></div><div>I would imagine the query would travel out the default route of the host.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.<br></div></div></body></html>