FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

They probably saw the news reports about the SQL slammer virus and udp 
port 1434, and assumed TDS was UDP instead of just the discovery protocol 
(does it have a name, or at least an acronym?).  A little knowledge can be 
a dangerous thing indeed. ;-)

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Craig Davison wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:42:24AM -0500, Coleman, Dave wrote:
> >     This is very good news.  Perhaps not a widely known fact, as every
> > IS person here was convinced that SQL used UDP and was very concerned when
> > they saw what was immediately labeled as "data corruption".  Sorry for
> > having to mention it to clear the air.
> 
> Maybe you should give your IS staff a refresher course on using netstat :)
> 
>