> According to Dave Huang:
> >
> >Anyways, most DNS queries use UDP, not TCP... (I think only zone
> >transfer uses TCP?)
> >
> 
> Not only for zone transfers, IIR my DNS correctly a tcp connection is
> used if the return data would overflow a udp packet.  Telnet'ing to
> the DNS port should give you a connection since bind should be
> listening on the TCP port.
> 
> -- 
> Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia

I used port 40, as Dave H. pointed out. I know better than that, 
but...  Well, I plead stupidity.

At the time I probed, though, I could not resolve the name of the
209.66.121.17 nameserver, or the domain starwolf.com. (that still doesn't
resolve, but starwolf.starwolf.com does).

D.V.
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