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Re: suggested new RRtype experiment

2004-05-20 16:58:29


On 5/20/2004 6:59 PM, Bob Atkinson wrote:

Rather, among other things, it is that the host in question may not
actually have the necessary network access that such library would
require. On sucyh hosts, the system's DNS client implementations work
because they are in fact doing RPC's to remote firewalls, and there is
no way that a dropped-in sibling library can connect up to same
successfully, since, for starters, the RPC-protocol spoken is
type-specific.

Are you telling me that nobody is allowed to write a network application
for windows which sends generic UDP traffic?

If the app goes through whatever registration rigamarole you guys require
then it can send whatever datagrams it needs to, correct?

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