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DNS and some other services work on both the protocols. We will take an example of DNS Service. Two protocols are somewhat different from each other. TCP is a connection-oriented protocol and it requires data to be consistent at the destination and UDP is connection-less protocol and doesn't require data to be consistent or don't need a connection to be established with host for consistency of data.
UDP packets are smaller in size. UDP packets can not be greater then 512 bytes. So any application needs data to be transferred greater than 512 bytes require TCP in place. For example, DNS uses both TCP and UDP for valid reasons described below. Note that UDP messages are not larger than 512 Bytes and are truncated when greater than this size. DNS uses TCP for Zone transfer and UDP for name queries either regular (primary) or reverse. UDP can be used to exchange small information whereas TCP must be used to exchange information larger than 512 bytes. If a client doesn't get response from DNS it must re-transmit the data using TCP after 3-5 seconds of interval.
There should be consistency in DNS Zone database. To make this, DNS always transfer Zone data using TCP because TCP is reliable and make sure zone data is consistent by transferring the full zone to other DNS servers who has requested the data.
The problem occurs when Windows 2000 server and Advanced Server products uses Dynamic ports for all above 1023. In this case your DNS server should not be internet facing i.e. doing all standard queries for client machines on the network. The router (ACL) must permitted all UDP inbound traffic to access any high UDP ports for it to work.
LDAP always uses TCP - this is true and why not UDP because a secure connection is established between client and server to send the data and this can be done only using TCP not UDP. UDP is only used when finding a domain controller (Kerberos) for authentication. For example, a domain client finding a domain controller using DNS.
TCP protocal is used for DNS Zone transfer between two DNS servers. both servers establish a connection transfer data(zone data) and both Server will make sure that data is consistent via TCP connection.
On other Hand: Connection between the DNS Server and client is using UDP protocal over Port 53.
DNS Uses TCP for Zone Transfer overe port 53 and UDP port 53 for DNS quaries from client machines
DNS service work on both the protocol
DNS (Domain Naming System)
DNS and some other services uses both TCP and UDP the reason for using both protocols is very simple as UDP is a connection less protocol and it does not acknowledge so it is slightly faster then TCP
Hence DNS uses UDP for name queries wherein TCP for Zone transfer
DNS and some other Services work on both the TCP and UDP Protocols.
DNS uses TCP for Zone Transfer over Port: 53
TCP protocal is used for DNS Zone transfer between two DNS servers.
Connection between the DNS Server and client is using UDP protocal over Port 53.
DNS service use both tcp and udp ports
Both TCP & UDP on port 53
TCP protocal is used for DNS Zone transfer between two DNS servers. both servers establish a connection transfer data(zone data) and both Server will make sure that data is consistent via TCP connection.
DNS is widely use sevices of both TCP and UDP ports.
UDP is used when the size of the message is lessthan 512 bytes.
If the size is more than 512 bytes, then TCP will use.
