Unknown UDP port opened by bind ?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <slrn8dtadr.1kn.bounce at holiday.home.org>,
 <bounce at cerebus.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I'm running bind 8.2.2-p3 with Red Hat Linux 6.0.  When bind is started,
>besides TCP and UDP ports on 53, a "netstat -a" shows that bind is
>listening on UDP port 1024 ?  Any idea what this is ?

This is the source port it uses when it sends out queries.  Normally it
selects an unused high port, but you can override it with the source-port
option in named.conf.

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