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Rackspace Technology Interview Question

When does DNS use TCP instead of UDP

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Anonymous

Dec 11, 2011

DNS use TCP for zone transfer.

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Anonymous

Dec 3, 2014

Maximum UDP packet size is 512 bytes (or 4096, with the extension of DNS protocol). When the request is larger then a max. UDP size, DNS will switch to TCP.

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Anonymous

Nov 26, 2017

speed

Anonymous

Jul 5, 2012

Agreed....used for zone transfer....