Blocking TCP

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Thu Nov 8 00:53:40 UTC 2001


At 12:06 PM 11/7/01, Barry Margolin wrote:
>In article <9sa3oi$1td at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Danny Mayer  <mayer at gis.net> wrote:
> >In addition, TCP is just for the zone transfer itself.  A slave also needs
> >to do
> >a regular UDP query for the SOA record to see if the serial number has 
> changed.
> >If it can't do that it won't attempt a zone transfer.
>
>Since no one has suggested blocking UDP, what does this have to do with the
>discussion?

Because a zone transfer doesn't just involve TCP.

         Danny



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