Specifying port in 'forwarders' directive?

Igmar Palsenberg maillist at chello.nl
Wed Sep 20 16:44:17 UTC 2000


On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Brian Thomas wrote:

> 
> It doesn't look like there's any way to specify an address/port combination
> in the 'forwarders' directive, is this correct? Is there a specific
> reason for this, besides "Why would you want to?"  :)

Security. The bind that receives the request verifies the source /
destination adress.

Second, the standard says port 53.

> I'm trying to set up a test environment and it would be useful to
> be able to do this. I'm a little surprised that since you can set up
> BIND to *listen* on any port you want, and can specify ports in things like
> dig and nslookup, that you can't specify one in the forwarders directive.

Why ?? All DNS server listen on port 53. Server that don't don't get
queried. Seems like a useless feature in the real world..
 
> Brian


	Igmar




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