In wake of recent memcached amplification problems https://blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-major-amplification-attacks-from-port-11211/ it makes sense to disable UDP support. The code of twemcache seem to be created in a way to require UDP binding always: https://github.com/twitter/twemcache/blob/5bfa26512520fc102be09a694007d60e680dc9d1/src/mc.c#L1037 ``` if (tcp_specified && !udp_specified) { settings.udpport = settings.port; } else if (udp_specified && !tcp_specified) { settings.port = settings.udpport; } ```
In wake of recent memcached amplification problems
https://blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-major-amplification-attacks-from-port-11211/
it makes sense to disable UDP support.
The code of twemcache seem to be created in a way to require UDP binding always:
twemcache/src/mc.c
Line 1037 in 5bfa265