On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 05:27:24PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:

> TCP/53 a redheaded stepchild and its uses are all dangerous or unscalable.
> (that initiators do the close, and that responders have a minimum 2-minute
> timeout, says that any conformant implementation can be slapped down hard
> with a three line perl script running anywhere on the internet.)

DNS over TCP is a damn sight easier than WWW over TCP. Ask the webserver
guys about their query rates..

We've just had it easy over the past years, and it shows.

The server I mean by the way is microsoft exchange, which likes to do DNS
over TCP.

        Bert

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