telnet to port 53?

[David T. Smith]

Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 
> Barry Margolin wrote:
> 
> > In article <19991210131718.C920 at adams.cospo.osis.gov>,
> > Joseph S D Yao  <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov> wrote:
> > >On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 05:32:53PM -0500, David wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>    Should I be able to telnet to port 53?  If not, how can i disable it?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >> David
> > >

Actually, since DNS is a binary protocol (as opposed to SMTP, HTTP and
others), telneting (i.e., using a telnet client to connect to the tcp
port 53)  will not enable anything useful (unless one is real good with
control characters and generating arbitrary 8-bit codes).

DTS

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