Named 8.1.2 starts listening on additional port

[Barry Margolin]

In article <20000502154713.6935.cpmta at c014.sfo.cp.net>,
 <emsullivan at flashcom.net> wrote:
>I'm running named 8.1.2 and every time I start it, besides listening on
>port 53 on all interfaces, I see an entry in netstat that shows it is
>listening on another random UDP port. Why is that happening?

When named performs recursive queries, it needs to listen for the
responses, which are on a dynamic port by default.  You can change that if
you wish by using the "query-source" option.

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