ip 69.59.189.68:53

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:35:59 -0700 (PDT),
W S <whatisee1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I just installed BIND 9.5.0-P2 on CentOS and I see this ip address witin 'netstat -aunt' output:
> tcp <MY_IP>:<SOME_HIGH_PORT>    69.59.189.68:53  SYN_SENT
>  
> Why my DNS box trying to contact this IP 69.59.189.68:53 ???

Why not?  A recursive name server can use a TCP connection to a remote
authoritative server when it gets a truncated UDP response.

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