dig source port

Barry Margolin barry.margolin at level3.com
Mon Aug 25 17:22:58 UTC 2003


In article <bicbjk$21na$1 at sf1.isc.org>,  <lvobr at ies.etisalat.ae> wrote:
>Is there a way I can specify source port for the dig, I have setup with 
>firewall, and my nameserver source port is abcd, but I am unable to make 
>the dig to use the same, thus firewall stops the dig random source port 
>requests.
>
>I can recompile it, but it is the last option for me.

Are you sure you really need to open up the port?  Most decent firewalls
are "stateful" -- when they see an outgoing request, they remember the IP's
and ports involved and automatically allow the reply back in.  Perhaps you
just need to enable this feature in your firewall.

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