[lug] Quote of the Day

rm at mamma.varadinet.de rm at mamma.varadinet.de
Wed Feb 7 02:11:29 MST 2001


On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:18:23AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
[Sean's wisdom here ...]
> <MASTER CAUTION ILLUMINATED - Ding!  Blink, blink, blink...>
> 
> Um, DNS uses both UDP and TCP connections.  You gotta take that one out
> of the analogy!  :P
> 
> <Pilot Acknowledgement - Master Caution Reset>
> 
> I've seen a lot of people open port 53 UDP-only for their nameserver and
> wonder why things are not quite always working right...

um, i've done it many times (for incomming tcp connections on 53)
and never had problems so far. 

 Ralf



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