Re: TCP connections to DJBDNS

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 02:05:05PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
> AXFRdns just does AXFR transfers.  AXFR is not the only thing that TCP
> is used for in DNS.  TCP can also be used for all queries, 
> including ordinary lookups.  So if the authority server doesn't listen 
> on TCP/53, it doesn't support TCP DNS. 
> 
> Also, (again, I don't use AXFRdns), doesn't that program just transfer a
> zone from a master to a tinydns slave using AXFR?  AXFRdns doesn't
> listen on TCP/53 to provide copies of a tinydns zone in AXFR format,
> does it?

It listens on TCP/53 and (as normally configured) replies to all queries
that tinydns does, as well as AXFR.