Blocking TCP

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Tue Nov 6 18:22:19 UTC 2001


>>>>> "Tilo" == Tilo Lutz <TiloLutz at gmx.de> writes:

    Tilo> I'm using bind9 I've read in a Firewall book TCP is only
    Tilo> used to do zonetransfers.  So I only allow the secondary DNS
    Tilo> to do zonetransfers.  But since that many request via TCP
    Tilo> are blocked by my firewall.  Is it OK blocking these
    Tilo> requests or ist it "unhealthy" ?

Preventing TCP queries is simply wrong. In the DNS TCP is not just
used for zone transfers.


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