The old chestnut - is TCP necessary?

[Roy S. Rapoport]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:20:03PM +0100, Marc Thach Xuan Ky wrote:
> I have a friend 8^) who wants to allow TCP DNS through the firewall. The
> firewall people are not keen to do this.  Telling them that "the
> firewall is broken" unfortunately does not sway them.  My friend needs
> examples of real Internet domain lookups that truncate and require TCP. 
> Does anybody out there know of any?

Why does it matter what other people have? Does your friend have a need for
TCP DNS? If so, he should be able to demonstrate the need based on his own
requirements, rather than someone else's requirements.

-roy