Re: About DNS
From: Philippe Gaudron (philip.gaudron@wanadoo.nospam.fr)
Date: 01/28/03
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From: Philippe Gaudron <philip.gaudron@wanadoo.nospam.fr> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:43:07 +0100
"dragon" <siao@eastmail.com> écrivait ("dragon" <siao@eastmail.com>
wrote):
>Fact : Only root can bind the privileged ports(0~1023)
>Fact : DNS service uses port 53
>Fact : In my system, the effective user of the process "named" is "bind"
>Question : How can this user "bind" uses port 53?
>
Like other daemons as httpd: user root starts daemon, binds the port
and changes the owner of the process to a non-privileged user (defined
in the config file).
Regards,
PG
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