force nameserver(bind) information exchanges with clients via tcp only

Fred Morris m3047 at m3047.net
Thu Sep 30 23:30:51 UTC 2021


Hi there. Media devices and a crappy SOHO wifi AP? I know that feeling. 
;-)

On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, Donika Mirdita wrote:
> I have set up a nameserver and I would like to force all future client 
> requests to TCP only.

You can't really. You can try, by setting TC, but if the clients never 
see the (UDP) response, they'll never try TCP. (1980s logic)

What you can do is force the clients to use TCP... or TLS.

     https://github.com/m3047/tcp_only_forwarder

Good luck...

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Fred Morris



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