Re: TCP domain connection
Hi Igor!
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, Igor Mozetic wrote:
>
> Peter Palfrader writes:
>
> > > As far as I understand, these are not DNS queries since they
> > > are UDP.
> >
> > DNS queries usually are UDP actually.
>
> Well, this is my point. DNS queries are UDP and are not logged
> by ippl. But I get TCP queries to port 53. What are they ??
Sorry, I missed your point. AFAIK clients may open a TCP connection to
a nameserver under some circumstances. IIRC exim does this for example
when querying the MX record for a domain. I might be wrong though.
yours,
peter
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