Network oddities
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rowanf came over to the Starport yesterday evening and had trouble getting DNS on her MacOS 9 laptop. Nobody else has reported a problem lately, but I seem to recall having some trouble with a Win98 laptop as well. My current best guess is that it has to do with DNS over UDP getting back through the various subnets and routers -- recent DNS implementations use TCP, but the old way involved UDP and the reply had to go back via UDP to port 53 on the requesting machine.