protocols used by bind

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Kovacs" == Kovacs Robi <eris at nexus.hu> writes:

    Kovacs> I just want to ask, if someone know, what bind uses tcp
    Kovacs> and udp for.  Is it true, that only udp is used for
    Kovacs> queries, and tcp only for transfers?

It's partially true. TCP is used when the answer is too big for a 512
byte payload. And some applications that make lots of lookups use TCP
to send their queries instead of using the same UDP sover and over
again.