additional udp port open

[Michael Milligan]

> Hi list,
>
> Is it nomal for named 8.2.2 to listen on additional, random udp port?
>

Yes.  It uses that port to source queries to other name servers.  And if you
send a query to that port, you'll get a nice little error message in syslog
about it, e.g.,

... named[6197]: refused query on non-query socket from [127.0.0.1].4378

Regards,
Mike

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