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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:01:50 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW/DNS rules
Message-ID:  <596.935442110@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:53:40 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <199908232053.NAA36241@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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> DNS queries and replies are usually done using udp, if and only if a udp
> query fails well a client even try a tcp query.  You can savely block
> tcp queries, there just shouldn't really be any.

Life isn't that simple, unfortunately. There are some clients out there
that use TCP on a regular basis - early versions of a well known Internet
"server in a box" system based on FreeBSD, for instance :-)

Blocking TCP queries is not recommended.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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