[dns-operations] The possible problems after May 5th

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Fri Apr 9 09:45:02 UTC 2010


* Paul Vixie:

>> From: Olaf Kolkman <olaf at NLnetLabs.nl>
>> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 07:52:14 +0200
>> ...
>> In other words, I do not see why an example of TCP fallback not working
>> in production configuration is relevant when in that production
>> configuration UDP works fine, all the time?
>
> on the one hand, if you're never setting TC, then nobody should be trying
> TCP/53 on you.

Doesn't RFC 1123 explicitly say that you shouldn't fail queries over
TCP just because they would succeed over UDP.

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