Re: nat and dns

[Samuel Díaz García <samueldg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, you've reason. But I answered that to simplify and thinking about an 
internal DNS server that only have the intranet names in it and the external 
queries are redirected throw external servers. 

Sorry again. 

Nick Drage writes: 

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:09:43PM +0200, Samuel Díaz García wrote:
> > For DNS query only UDP is necesary, not TCP.
>
> Heh, that's such a common misconception that I almost mentioned it in my
> original email.  Most DNS queries take place over UDP, however if the
> reply to the query is especially large then a new TCP connection is
> opened between the client and server.  Also zone transfers take place
> over TCP IIRC, it depends what kind of functionality the DNS server will
> be providing. 
>
> --
> mors omnia vincit 



Samuel Díaz Garcí­a
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