bind 9.2.1 SERVFAIL driving me nuts

[Barry Margolin]

In article <brslo9$2a6c$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Barry Finkel <b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov> wrote:

> TCP can be used for more than just zone transfers.  There is nothing
> in the DNS RFCs that state that DNS queries must be sent via UDP.

This line from RFC 1123 seems to contradict you:

            Specifically, a DNS resolver or server that is sending a
            non-zone-transfer query MUST send a UDP query first.

This isn't specifically a "DNS RFC", so maybe you aren't technically 
wrong.  But RFCs 1122 and 1123 are effectively part of every prior RFC 
that they update.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA