named ports
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jan 23 06:12:11 UTC 2006
In article <dr11ng$qak$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net>
wrote:
> kalin mintchev wrote:
> > hi all...
> >
> > i just saw that named maintains the ports 2213 and 2214 open.
> > are these ports listening for remote update instructions?!
> >
> > a quick search on line has these two ports listed as used by a game
> > called Kali...
> >
> > bind 9.2.4
> >
> > thanks...
>
> You are misinformed. named does not use any specific port outside of 53
> and 953. It will use non-privileged ports (ie > 1024) for its own
> queries but it will close them as soon as it has received a response.
I don't think it closes them. It opens a socket for outgoing queries
when it first starts up, and keeps it open the whole time. Unless you
use the "query-source" option in named.conf, it lets the stack choose
the port number.
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