secondary name server not updating

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Apr 27 14:25:41 UTC 2000


In article <20000427140647.69371.qmail at hotmail.com>,
Tun _ <tun_ at hotmail.com> wrote:
>This appears to be the same problem I am having with zones tranfers from my 
>slave server.  On page 381 of DNS & BIND, I am a bit confuse.  During the 
>zone transfer, does Bind 8 use port 53 or upper level UDP ports?

Zone transfers use TCP, and the source port is a dynamic port.  This was
true in BIND 4 as well.  The only change to source ports between BIND 4 and
8 is when named is sending out queries -- they used to use UDP port 53, now
they use a dynamic port.

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