Re: [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/dns/bind9 Makefile distinfo ports/dns/bind94 Makefile distinfo ports/dns/bind95 Makefile distinfo]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 08:54:48AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
Is there a way to restrict the ports which BIND selects -- perhaps
at the expense of a small amount of entropy -- such that it doesn't
try to use UDP ports which are administratively blocked (e.g. ports
used by worms, or insecure Microsoft network utilities)? We don't
dare turn these port blocks off, or naive users will fall prey to
security holes in Microsoft products. But if BIND doesn't know to
work around them, lookups will occasionally (and infuriatingly!)
fail.

query-source has an argument called "port" which will do what you want.
That option *only* affects UDP queries, however; TCP queries are always
random.

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