Actually, DNS uses both UDP and TCP.  TCP is mostly used for zone
transfers, or whenever the amount of data to be returned is too big for
one packet. IIRC...

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Steve Quint wrote:

> At 5:18 PM -0800 2/27/98, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >
> >Do you have a hosts file on MacOS? All the name lookup systems I'm
> >familiar with use TCP. ??
> >
> 
> I don't know about the rest, but I do know that DNS uses UDP, not TCP.
> 
> Steve
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