resolver

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Thu Aug 19 17:42:53 UTC 1999


But.. This wouldn't be a resolver issue.

Michael

Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Jim Reid wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "Dat" == Dat Nguyen <dnguyen at simpletech.com> writes:
> >
> >     Dat> Because of our firewall, I need to set the resolver to use
> >     Dat> port 53 to make queries.  How do I do this?
> >
> > You can't. Even if there was such an option in resolv.conf, it
> > wouldn't work most of the time. Only the super-user can bind() to port
> > 53, so ordinary users wouldn't have permission to use this port number.
> 
> Perhaps he meant options { query-source * port 53; ) in named.conf?
> 
> Just a guess...


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