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Re: DNS problems to RoadRunner - tcp vs udp

  • From: Valdis . Kletnieks
  • Date: Fri Jun 13 14:19:19 2008

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:14:55 EDT, Jon Kibler said:

> UDP is used for queries.
> 
> TCP is used for zone transfers.

It's also sometimes used if a reply doesn't fit in the 512 bytes for a
UDP answer and EDNS0 isn't in effect.  You get a truncated UDP packet back
and re-ask the query over TCP.

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