Trying to find out why my unbound will not resolve www.startpuntgeldzaken.nl (1.13.1)

[Gerben Wierda]

That is also a good option. It really surprised me as I did not know that TCP was a hard requirement for queries. In my old know how, TCP was for zone transfers, but not for queries, but I admit I never dove into it extremely deep. Naive, no, but lacking knowledge, yes (those are not the same...).

> On 6 May 2021, at 12:37, Anand Buddhdev via Unbound-users <unbound-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 06/05/2021 11:25, Gerben Wierda via Unbound-users wrote:
> 
> TCP has been a requirement for a long time.
> 
> Perhaps unbound should drop the "do-tcp" option altogether. I don't
> really see a need to disable TCP, and providing such an option just
> allows naive users to shoot themselves in the foot.
> 
> Regards,
> Anand
> 
>> Ah. I was under the impression that I could have a setup that
>> doesn’t
>> do TCP at all, but it seems that these days, TCP is a requirement.
>> 
>> Basically, do-tcp must be a yes to be able to resolve the entire
>> internet. do-tcp: no means some names will not resolve. And this will
>> become worse over time. Setting do-tcp to no might come with a decent
>> warning, then.