BIND and TCP

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Sat Sep 24 15:41:15 UTC 2005


In article <dh3gif$1fm7$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Peter Dambier <peter at peter-dambier.de> wrote:

> It happens from time to time that DNS via UDP does not work. Bind 
> automatically
> switches to UDP then.

Are you sure about that?  I think it only switches when the UDP response 
has the Truncated flag set, as recommended by the RFCs, not when UDP 
just fails.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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