> DNS is supposed to be reliable. UDP does not strike me as a reliable protocol. Tthe glibc behavior is the standard on Linux, and FreeBSD (I don't know about

> DNS is supposed to be reliable. UDP does not strike me as a reliable protocol. Tthe glibc behavior is the standard on Linux, and FreeBSD (I don't know about the other BSDs) has the same behavior IIRC. Changing the de facto standard is not something that should be done lightly...