Network troubleshooting, any experts?

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 14:35 4/28/2004, you wrote:
>Does DNS resolve names through UDP?  Would that explain why I can't telnet
>to port 53 on the DNS servers,yet still get name resolutions?  Am I wrong 
>conceptually
>on how DNS works?

DNS resolves queries when possible using UDP, and when the query is too 
large for a UDP packet it can also use TCP. So udp/53 and tcp/53 must both 
be open in order for DNS to work properly.

Cheers,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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