Re: BIND and 32774 or 32775 UDP ports

From: Crist J. Clark (cristjc@earthlink.net)
Date: 10/10/01 

Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 02:47:39 -0700
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To: Jas Amidzic <jasmin.amidzic@abs.gov.au>
Subject: Re: BIND and 32774 or 32775 UDP ports
Message-ID: <20011010024739.J387@blossom.cjclark.org>

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:22:54AM +1000, Jas Amidzic wrote:
>
>
> BIND 9.1.3 besides listening to TCP port 53 also appear to be listening on UDP
> ports 32774 and 32775. Quick nmap scan reviled this ports identifying them as
> 'sometimes-rpc12' and 'sometimes-rpc14'. However this ports apart to be
> associated with BIND, once BIND is stooped 'netstat' does not list those ports
> as being in the listening state. Pleas not that all RPC services on the box are
> disabled.
>
> I am not sure why this ports are being put in listening state by BIND. Any
> ideas ...?

It just made a query or two to some DNS servers and is waiting for a
response? Or does it keep these two open for long periods? 

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                         cjclark@jhu.edu
                                         cjc@freebsd.org

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