named ports

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sun Jan 22 22:33:17 UTC 2006


kalin mintchev wrote:
>   hi all...
> 
>   i just saw that named maintains the ports 2213 and 2214 open.
>   are these ports listening for remote update instructions?!
> 
>   a quick search on line has these two ports listed as used by a game
> called Kali...
> 
>   bind 9.2.4
> 
>   thanks...

You are misinformed. named does not use any specific port outside of 53
and 953. It will use non-privileged ports (ie > 1024) for its own
queries but it will close them as soon as it has received a response.
Kali is using a non-privileged port and it cannot be reserved.

Danny



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