From: Karl J. Runge
Subject: Re: TCP for DNS resolver queries?
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:12:25 -0800
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (The reason I want to do this is to make stateless packet filtering work.
> Just about the only thing I've got left on my home system that needs UDP is
> DNS. Yah, yah, separate firewall, kernel 2.4, blah blah -- it's my home PC, I
> don't want to have to build an enterprise network just to browse the web. I
> also considered running a local caching-only nameserver and telling it to only
> use port 53, but given the bug-of-the-month-club that BIND seems to be in
> lately, I'm thinking that would be a net loss...)
I know I'm gonna regret it, but I gotta bite...
Isn't this "dns over tcp for me" attitude a bit, well er, NET.PIG?
<TONE VALUE="Wise Father with pipe and sweater, circa 1950">
Why, son, what if _everybody_ decided they were `too good' for
UDP and started doing all their DNS queries using TCP?
Remember son, named doesn't fork(2)...
</TONE>
There ya go Ben: chop off me 'ead ;-)
Karl