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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by tptacek on Thursday October 30, 2025 @03:46PM (#45764456)
I'd argue that DNS has an implicit transport protocol by dint of the QIDs. It's a very simple transport! But that's the point, right.
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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by ekr____ on Thursday October 30, 2025 @04:07PM (#45764718)
I think we agree here: protocols built on top of UDP often build their own ad hoc reliability layer, as opposed to having an explicit one like TCP, QUIC, or SCTP.
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