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Re: DNS ports...





DNS Ports: Answers from another Recipient
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> DNS is udp not tcp
 
> Zone transfers can be tcp.
 
> Request:
> client (libresolv) random above 1023 -> server (named) port 53
 
> Response:
> server port 53 -> client same port that request was sent from
 
 
> name server to name server:
> 53 -> 53
> 53 <- 53
 
 Mr. Robert Hajime Lanning answered Matt's question before I did.
 However, I didn't see that until I got further through my 
 inbox.

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Jim Dennis                                             jdennis@linuxcare.com
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