Getting transfers from non-standard port

[Cricket Liu]

Wes Brown <wes at prozac.eeap.cwru.edu> wrote in message
news:<7se6ii$5ng$3 at alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu>...
> I am trying to get a zone transfer from a machine that is listening on a
> non-standard port.  I can query using nslookup by setting the port in the
> interface.
>
> What I would like to do is configure Bind 8 to get updates from this
> machine.  Both are running Bind 8 if it really matters.

You can do that with BIND 8.2.1:

zone "acmebw.com" {
    type slave;
    masters port 1234 {  207.69.231.2; };
    file "bak.acmebw.com";
};

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