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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:09:12 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW/DNS rules
Message-ID:  <199908232109.PAA02237@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <596.935442110@verdi.nethelp.no>
References:  <199908232053.NAA36241@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <596.935442110@verdi.nethelp.no>

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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.

I may just 'log' TCP queries then, to see what's what.  If I never get
any hits, I will probably later on block them.


Nate


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