udp vs tcp query

Emanuele Balla (aka Skull) skull at bofhland.org
Thu Oct 27 05:04:42 UTC 2011


On 10/23/11 5:42 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:34:48 -0500, Larry Brower wrote:
>>> can i control this pr zone when bind is dns client ?
>> Why would you want to? Just fix the problem.
> 
> ask dnsbl owners to stop using rbldnsd ?

No point and no need for that.
TCP is needed only when replies do not fit 512 bytes (let's ignore EDNS0
and such). For any DNSBL, this limit is not a problem at all.




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