Re: [squid-users] Does squid use UDP or TCP for it's DNS requests

"Boosten, Peter" wrote:
>
> #
> # All DNS requests are done over UDP. DNS only uses TCP for
> # zone transfers.
> #
>
> Not entirely true: larger DNS-requests are done over TCP as well.

But Squid does not (yet). Instead it only uses what did fit in the UDP
reply.

This should be fixed in Squid someday to correctly fall back to TCP, but
is not really a problem today.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Feb 05 2003 - 15:54:21 MST