DNS Ports

[Mark Damrose]

"Dave Harman" <dharman1060 at earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:bg4hfm$1o6$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> May I ask a further question.
> As I understand it, the default for BIND 9 servers
> is to send queries out on unpprivileged ports to the remote
> server's port 53.
>
> The remote server sends the reply from it's port 53
> to the unpriviliged port the local server used to send the query.
>
> IS this correct ?

Yes.

>
> Thanks
>
> Dave Harman