bind query must be on port >1023

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Sep 5 00:32:17 UTC 2001


> 
> hi
> 
> my goal is made bind to listen query on port 53 but answer them on port >
> 1023

	That is not how the DNS works.  The clients expect the answers
	to come back from the same address and port the query was to
	and they test for this.

> 
> i addded query-source address * port 53; into options in named.conf but that
> doesn't seem to help

	query-source is used to set the source address/port that named
	uses for queries it needs to make.

	Mark
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> 
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