The old chestnut - is TCP necessary?
Roy S. Rapoport
bind9-users at ols.inorganic.org
Thu Sep 16 20:31:40 UTC 2004
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:20:03PM +0100, Marc Thach Xuan Ky wrote:
> I have a friend 8^) who wants to allow TCP DNS through the firewall. The
> firewall people are not keen to do this. Telling them that "the
> firewall is broken" unfortunately does not sway them. My friend needs
> examples of real Internet domain lookups that truncate and require TCP.
> Does anybody out there know of any?
Why does it matter what other people have? Does your friend have a need for
TCP DNS? If so, he should be able to demonstrate the need based on his own
requirements, rather than someone else's requirements.
-roy
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