Root server DNS traffic across Linux/ipchains firewall?

[Joseph S D Yao]

> I'm setting up a firewall on my Linux box.  This machine is running 
> Linux kernel v2.2.13 and BIND v8.2.1.  For some reason I'm getting 
> output from my box to root nameservers on a high port number.  Can 
> anyone explain this?  

If you don't want this, use option:
       query-source address * port 53;

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