zone transfers sticking on one port?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c3csb4$3ie$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Chris Fabri <fabric at northwestern.edu> wrote:
> Ok, I was wrong about these connections.   They are being initiated as TCP 
> connections, although i swore they were UDP at the time.    They are using 
> slowly increasing random port numbers, though.        I would say that It's 
> possible that eventually it will cycle through all the ports enough times 
> that there would be several sockets that have been opened on 39999 that 
> just sit there and keep trying.  But I had other ports blocked and I would 
> expect to see this.

In this case, the behavior you requested -- retrying with a different 
port -- should be happening as you want.  It doesn't retry immediately, 
however; it uses the Retry interval from the SOA record as the timeout 
to retry a zone transfer after getting an error.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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