UDP port used in BIND

Brett Carr brettcarr at ripe.net
Tue Nov 15 22:10:00 UTC 2005



On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Mcdull wrote:

> Why BIND use udp port ?
>

Thats the way the DNS standard was written.

> What will happed if I block the udp port ?
>

It will stop working.

Brett


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