Dig: specifying a source port

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Wed Aug 4 20:40:02 UTC 2004


>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at center.osis.gov> writes:

    Joseph> Some firewalls [;-(] still require that the source port be
    Joseph> 53 as in the ancient versions of BIND!  While this would
    Joseph> normally be useless, if that is the case in his situation,
    Joseph> it would be necessary.

This may well be true. But such firewalls are broken and should be
fixed. Which is a whole lot easier to say than do of course.



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