Re: What port shoud be opened for the dns server

From: Bruno Wolff III (bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu)
Date: 07/14/02 

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu>
Date: 14 Jul 2002 14:53:15 GMT

In article <Xns924A9B8D730EDsvek@130.133.1.4>, svek wrote:
>
> why would DNS use a unpriviliged source port of >1024 when 53 is reserved
> and always has been for DNS? sounds like a stupid plan to me, but then
> again I've never heard of it.

Using random ports greater than 1024 makes blind spoofing attacks harder.