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Date:      Fri, 28 Jun 1996 08:07:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        Alex Nash <alex@fa.tdktca.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW bugs? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960628080220.25913A-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
In-Reply-To: <199606281414.QAA25287@keltia.freenix.fr>

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On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote:

> It seems that Alex Nash said:
> > I believe DNS/tcp is for zone transfers only.  DNS/udp is all you need
> > for standard lookups.
> 
> Not really. If named see  that the answer will  be more  than 512 bytes  in
> size, it will send the answer with the TF  (truncated flag) bit set and the
> resolver is supposed to re-try the query with TCP.

Also, Netscape seems to want to handle its own DNS stuff.  It doesn't seem
to use the system calls, because under FreeBSD at least, it resolutely
ignores /etc/hosts. I know when it uses SOCKS that it talks tcp to the
name server, don't know about when no SOCKS proxy is set up.




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