Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] DNS Query over TCP

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From: Jack Coates <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:00:32 -0800
Dario Ciccarone wrote:


Actually, since RFC-2671, UDP answers can be > 512 octets.
the trick would be for the client to perform a DNS query, and if TC flag on the answer ==1, retry the query using TCP. a slightly outdated, but still useful PPT file can be grabbed from http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hollingd/netprog2001/notes/hw3/hw3.ppt <http://www.cs.rpi.edu/%7Ehollingd/netprog2001/notes/hw3/hw3.ppt> 


cool, thanks for the tip!

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