udp port 1083?!

[Cricket Liu]

> I've recently set up bind 9.2 on my debian linux system. everything is
> working great but I discovered that it also listens on 1083/udp on all
> interfaces; what is this? I've searched everywhere but i keep hitting
> that its an Anasoft License Manager which I don't run. (netstat -pa
> shows named as the prog).

That's named's query port.  It sends queries from that port, so it's
listening
for answers there, too.

cricket

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