Possible System Compromise

[Daniel Roesen]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:37:22PM +0000, Jim Reid wrote:
> Those outbound TCP queries should use a random, non-privileged port
> number. Here's what's in the BIND8 documentation:
> So if you're seeing different behaviour, it's a bug.

Yes, see Mark Andrews' reply (<200102120121.f1C1Lkk39877 at drugs.dv.isc.org>)
with the patch which fixes the bug (being that BIND first tries to use
port 53 if set in query-source spec).


Best regards,
Daniel

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