syslog and bind

Igmar Palsenberg maillist at chello.nl
Sat Oct 21 10:26:47 UTC 2000


On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Riley McIntire wrote:


> I thought bind 8 used an unprivledged port?  If not I'm wasting me time on
> this machine.

Bind listens on 53, which is privileges. The outgoing stuff that bind does
can be (or is ?) on an unprived port.

> Yup!   It did became apparent that direct logging to a file is better.
> Thanks for clarifying this.


	Igmar




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