avoid-v4-udp-ports ineffective? (BIND 9.8.1-P1)

[Irwin Tillman]

It appears that named is trying to use ports I've mentioned in avoid-v4-udp-ports.

Platform: BIND 9.8.1-P1 on Solaris 10 / SPARC

On some of the ports which BIND might otherwise choose to use, 
I have other daemons running and/or the OS treats the ports
as privileged.  To keep named from trying to use those ports, I have
in named.conf:

options {
    ...
    # there is no use-v4-udp-ports statement.
    avoid-v4-udp-ports { 1812; 1813; 2049; 4045; };
    # I don't speak v6.
};

When I upgraded from BIND 9.7.3-P3 to 9.8.1-P1, I began seeing in the log:

 named[9185]: dispatch: warning: dispatch 42d950: open_socket(::#2049) -> permission denied: continuing
 named[9185]: dispatch: warning: dispatch 42d950: open_socket(::#4045) -> permission denied: continuing

...which suggests to me that BIND is trying to use ports I specified in avoid-v4-udp-ports.


Checking get_dispsocket() in ./lib/dns/dispatch.c, I see that a difference
between 9.7.3-P3 and 9.8.1-P1 is that 9.8.1-P1 logs a warning when an attempt
to open the socket returns ISC_R_NOPERM (perhaps the result of bind() returning EACCESS ?),
while 9.7.3-P3 didn't log the warning.  The warning is new.
When confronted with the error, both versions proceed to pick another port to try again. 
So I don't know if the older version was also trying to use these ports and encountering
the same error.

I imagine Solaris might return EACCESS because:

% ndd /dev/udp udp_extra_priv_ports
2049 
4045 


I don't understand why named would try to use these ports in the first
place as they appear in avoid-v4-udp-ports.