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Date: 2013-03-08T07:17:32-05:00
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On 03/08/2013 07:12 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

 > Yes. UDP is wrong choice, almost always. For multicast purposes there 
exist
 > stream-oriented protocols which supersede UDP, e.g. PGM. So, except for
 > communication to legacy devices and LAN broadcasts UDP should never be
 > used.

UDP is a good choice for simple request/response protocols where both 
the request and the response are small enough to fit into a single 
datagram. For example: DNS. Also in this situation the overhead of TCP 
might be considered undesirable.

Peter