said by elwoodblues:You are absolutely correct Nitzguy, UDP is connectionless, TCP requires ack packets or it will re-transmit.
I have no idea why a DNS server would drop UDP packets, but yeah, use a different DNS server
Ok, so my 10+ year old knowledge stands....I was surprised I remembered this stuff...
Exactly, I don't use my own ISPs DNS and seem to do just fine with 4.2.2.1 as primary and 8.8.4.4 as secondary...