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[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Armin Safarians <armin.safarians at safeway.com> wrote:

> That would certainly let me set my port I query from, however reading
> the bind book it says that if query-source is not used, it would then
> use a random unprivileged port. My issue is that it uses the same one
> for all of its queries... The network folk expect random port sending
> those queries... ?????

The random about this is which port will be used when it's opened 
at startup. As default bind let's the OS decide ( use a free port). 
Then the same port is used to all queries. 

Re-opening a new port for each query would be inefficient.

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