Dig: specifying a source port

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at center.osis.gov
Wed Aug 4 20:54:41 UTC 2004


On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:40:02PM +0100, Jim Reid wrote:
> >>>>> "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.

;-)

I think that was his point.

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