Ancient history - using a port other than 53 for DNS

[Danny Mayer]

Install BIND 9 and use views.  Add a private IP address and configure a
view to accept requests only from that old server. Make sure that you
configure it to include a server statement which specifies:
transfer-format one answer;
as the older servers don't understand the default many-answers format.

         Danny
At 01:31 PM 3/21/02, Barry Margolin wrote:
>In article <a7d1a4$447 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
>Dennis Kelly  <kellyrd at nauticom.net> wrote:
> >A problem I'm having would be solved more easily if I could run 2
> >instances of named on one server - one at the 53 port, and one at
> >another. Clearly, this can be done, and I'm ready to set it up, but the
> >reason I want to do it involves zone transfers to some old
> >implementations (4.x), and I can't find out how to change the port in
> >secondary lines in the named.boot file.
>
>I don't think there's any way to specify the port number in named.boot.  I
>think if you use the -p<port#> option to named, it uses that port as a
>replacement for port 53 throughout its operation, although I'm not sure if
>it uses it when pulling zone transfers -- that requires passing a -p option
>to named-xfer, and I don't remember if it does that.  But you could give it
>a try and see if it works.
>
>But since this also changes the port that the server listens for queries
>on, I suspect it's not a useful solution for you.
>
>--
>Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
>Genuity, Woburn, MA
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