Dig: specifying a source port

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:24:58PM +0100, Jim Reid wrote:
> >>>>> "Jason" == Jason Richards <jrichards at gci.com> writes:
> 
>     Jason> I need to be able to specify the source port (since bind is
>     Jason> configured with transfer source port 53). I know this isn't
>     Jason> natively available, but I found a patch online for dig
>     Jason> v9.2.2 and have seemed to be able to make it work under
>     Jason> 9.2.3.
> 
> Insisting zone transfers requests use a specifc port number is dumb.
> Please don't do that.

Some firewalls [;-(] still require that the source port be 53 as in the
ancient versions of BIND!  While this would normally be useless, if
that is the case in his situation, it would be necessary.

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