UDP 1024 port - why?

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Mon Mar 4 20:51:13 UTC 2002


In article <a607lh$5h6 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, brutalnyj <brudnya at interia.pl> wrote:
>My bind 8.2.4 listens on 1024 UDP port.
>Can anyone send me a link where the purpose of this port is described?

BIND 8+ normally listens on two ports:

1. For incoming queries.  This defaults to 53, and can be configured using
   the 'listen-on' option.

2. For responses to recursive queries.  This defaults to an arbitrary port
   >1023, and can be configured using the 'query-source' option.

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