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Hi Joe, On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:30:58AM -0500, Joe Abley wrote: > > On 4-Feb-2007, at 00:58, Trent Lloyd wrote: > > >The flaw here is that DNS operates over 53(UDP), last time I > >checked SSH > >doesn't do UDP port forwarding? > > In the interests of dispelling a common myth, DNS operates over both > 53/udp and 53/tcp. However, given that a substantial portion of most > clients' queries will likely use UDP transport, your fundamental > point stands. Sorry, yes, you are 100% correct in that, but as you say in practice all client resolver queries are most likely to be over UDP :) Cheers, Trent
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