tcp versus udp
Martin McCormick
martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
Tue May 5 00:55:53 UTC 2009
Matt Baxter writes:
> When a response can not fit in a single UDP packet the server will mark
> the
> truncated flag (and respond with all the data it can inside the UDP
> packet). That should trigger a client to resubmit the query via TCP. Zone
> transfers are the most common use for TCP, but it can be required for
> normal queries, although that is far from normal.
My thanks to you and to 2 other list members who replied
off list. This confirms what I thought I remembered reading some
time before.
Martin McCormick
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