Problem resolving name.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cmvrlk$1toa$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> 
wrote:

> >>>>> "Barry" == Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
>     Barry> You can put a port number in the query-source option in
>     Barry> named.conf.  By default, it picks an unused high port.
> 
> Minor nit: it's the OS, not the name server, that picks the unused
> high port number by default.

The name server has to choose whether to put a specific port or 0 in the 
port field when calling bind().  Putting 0 there is the way an 
application "picks an unused high port".

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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