UDP packet/DNS server

Aaron Goldblatt aglists at goldblatt.net
Tue Sep 29 22:19:33 UTC 1998


>I think you mean port 53.  This is both TCP and UDP.  I thought DNS
>used both TCP and UDP.  Thus firewall that is blocking UDP traffic will
>cause zone updates to fail.
>name            42/udp          nameserver
>whois           43/tcp          nicname         # usually to sri-nic
>domain          53/tcp
>domain          53/udp

Queries are done via UDP; zone transfers are always fully TCP.

ag




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