  We investigate the large distance behavior of the electric and magnetic
propagators of hot SU(2) gauge theory in different gauges using lattice
simulations of the full 4d theory and the effective, dimensionally reduced 3d
theory. A comparison of the 3d and 4d data for the propagators suggests that
dimensional reduction works surprisingly well down to temperatures T=2 T_c. A
detailed study of the volume dependence of magnetic propagators is performed.
The electric propagators show exponential decay at large distances in all
gauges considered and a possible gauge dependence of the electric screening
mass turns out to be statistically insignificant.
