TCP/UDP for queries in BIND

James Raftery james-bind-users at now.ie
Tue Aug 7 12:35:27 UTC 2001


On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:09:46AM +0530, Vaishali Paithankar Sadaphal wrote:
> I wished to know if there was any option to be set in BIND so that
> the queries could be sent either on UDP or TCP connections.

No.

Zone transfers are done using TCP. Queries are done using UDP. If the
reponse to a query is truncated it is retried using TCP. This is
not user-configurable.

Regards,
james


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