On Sep 13, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Melvin wrote:

> Robert Goodyear wrote:
>
>
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>> On Sep 13, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Neil A. Hillard wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I need m0n0 to respond to TCP DNS queries. Does anyone know if   
>>>> this  is
>>>> possible or if there's a workaround to permit this functionality?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Just checked on mine and it does respond to TCP queries (with the
>>> default LAN can access anything rule):
>>>
>>> [root]# host -T www.google.com 192.168.1.1
>>> Using domain server:
>>> Name: 192.168.1.1
>>> Address: 192.168.1.1#53
>>> Aliases:
>>>
>>> www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com.
>>> www.l.google.com has address 66.249.93.104
>>> www.l.google.com has address 66.249.93.99
>>>
>>>
>>> Confirmed this with a packet capture, too.  This is on 1.2b9.
>>>
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>>
>>
>> I can nslookup just fine; it's the MS SMTP service that's won't  
>> talk  UDP for me. Or so it seems. If on these W2K boxes I use an  
>> upstream  DNS, it works fine. Switching to m0n0 DNS breaks only  
>> the SMTP  lookups; all other services are fine.
>>
>>
>>
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> The MS SMTP starts with TCP queries but should fall back to UDP  
> after failure.  I'd have a search on the MS KB for details.  I'm  
> not sure whether that started in 2000 or 2003 server.  It would be  
> reasonable that it was configurable as well, but then again we are  
> talking MS. :)
>
> HTH
> Melvin

Yeah, been all over those particular KB articles; even after applying  
MetaBase edits to the SMTP config and allegedly forcing the service  
to use UDP, I find it to not work, thus, my desire to tweak the  
router instead of every box I put on the ground.