On Mar 7, 2017, at 10:55 AM, Dave Horsfall <d...@horsfall.org> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote: > A posting on an unrelated subject reminded me about something: I recently > upgraded my broadband service from ADSL (copper) to fibre, and a new > router was supplied. I've since discovered that the router (a Sagemcomm > F@st 5355), get this, *does not pass outbound UDP packets*! (And I cannot > configure its firewall to do so.) So things like NTP and TRACEROUTE etc > are stuffed...
DNS uses udp (and some tcp). I'd be really surprised if it blocked /all/ udp packets (and if so, I would get my provider to replace it or let me replace it with something that didn't suck). > So, my question is: is UDP used anywhere in the update process? The rsync itself uses tcp -- Daniel J. Luke