24 Apr
1995
24 Apr
'95
6:37 p.m.
Randy Bush
For DNS to be usable, folks have to permit TCP DNS to work. I know of some service providers that filter TCP DNS connections. UDP packets are not big enough for many responses from an whois-type request.
Good point. As an addendum, those wishing to prevent zone transfers can use BIND's xfernets control to achieve this, and thus allow large responses while inhibiting undesired zone transfers.
randy