BIND bound to high port?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <26171089.947882793603.JavaMail.imail at cheeks.excite.com>,
T. Esting <T_Esting at excite.com> wrote:
>  I have several different BIND-s running on various machines.  On a couple,
>I see a random UDP high port bound that I don't typically expect to see
>(file descriptor 4 in the example below):

It's the port that's used as the source for recursive queries (and hence
the destination of the responses to those queries).  Unless you set a
specific port with the query-source option, BIND will use a random high
port, just like most other programs.

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