named listen on unrecognized udp port

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Oct 29 01:16:03 UTC 2001


> This has struggled me for some time now. My installation of bind
> listens also on UDP port 1029 on every interface (although I
> exlpicetely configured bind to only listen on certain
> interfaces):
> 
> named     167 root    4u  IPv4  69269       UDP *:1029
> named     167 root   20u  IPv4     78       UDP 127.0.0.1:53
> named     167 root   21u  IPv4     79       TCP 127.0.0.1:53 (LISTEN)
> named     167 root   22u  IPv4     80       UDP 192.168.0.90:53
> named     167 root   23u  IPv4     81       TCP 192.168.0.90:53 (LISTEN)
> 
> 
> What is this port for? It changes when I restart bind.

	Named, like any other dns client, makes queries.  It uses this
	port to send and receive answers to queries.  See query-source
	for how to override the default settings.

> 
> thanks
> 
> - Markus
> 
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> 
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