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Re: DNS problems to RoadRunner - tcp vs udp

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Rall)
Fri Jun 13 15:04:23 2008

In-Reply-To: <4852B91F.8090205@aset.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Rall <trall@almaden.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:03:55 -0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Friday, 2008-06-13 at 14:14 AST, Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler@aset.com> 
wrote:
> UDP is used for queries.

True.  But TCP can (and in some cases, has to be) used for queries also. 
You are misinformed.  See RFC 1035 (and others).

--
Tony Rall



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