Diagnostic help part 2

Anders Löwinger anders at abundo.se
Thu Oct 2 02:07:37 UTC 2014


On 2014-10-02 01:03, Mark Andrews wrote:
> TCP has always been required for DNS except in very special
> circumstances.  Go read RFC 1123.  Go look at the definition of
> SHOULD.  Unless you really knew what you were doing TCP as always
> been expected to be ON.

Some people refuse to enable stuff unless there is a Standard,
thats why I really like RFC5966 :)

<snip>
   his document therefore updates the core DNS protocol specifications
   such that support for TCP is henceforth a REQUIRED part of a full DNS
   protocol implementation.
</snip>

/Anders



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