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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: UDP - How unreliable?
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Date: 15 Dec 89 16:46:14 GMT
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In article <8912141305.aa00864@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, sra@lcs.mit.edu (Rob
Austein) writes:
> This is of course a good general rule, but there is at least one
> important special case where UDP is (arguably) the right sollution for
> a protocol that works over arbitrary distances: [DNS]

Actually, I think of this as a case where retransmission is simple to figure
out.  For an isolated query/response (such as DNS), UDP is often quite
appropriate, for exactly the reasons Rob mentioned.

Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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