On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Scott Kitterman wrote:
OK, so what the submitter was experiencing wasn't a BIND limitation, but a
failure to try again with TCP when UDP didn't return the entire string?
Is that right?
Oftentimes, a firewall will allow UDP DNS, but not TCP DNS. Almost all
of the time, TCP is only needed for zone transfers. SPF seems to increase
the fraction of DNS transactions requiring TCP.
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