[19813] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UDP packet/DNS server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Mon Sep 28 01:52:54 1998
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: madlion@neteng.net (Megatron)
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 22:43:20 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: mpetach@netflight.com, tatsuya@giganet.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9809280026330.3759-100000@justin.net> from "Megatron" at Sep 28, 98 00:34:15 am
> I think you mean port 53. This is both TCP and UDP. I thought DNS
> used both TCP and UDP. Thus firewall that is blocking UDP traffic will
> cause zone updates to fail.
You're right, my mistake. Sorry! :(
> name 42/udp nameserver
> whois 43/tcp nicname # usually to sri-nic
> domain 53/tcp
> domain 53/udp
Matt
