Re: what ports does sendmail /popper use?

From: mischa (mischa@megapathdsl.net)
Date: 05/28/02


From: "mischa" <mischa@megapathdsl.net>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 06:26:04 -0500

Yeah, thats the thing thats confusing me since i have port 53 udp and tcp
open and still get the failure to resolve error. could it have something to
do with icmp being blocked?

"Vladimir P." <vladimir@NoSpamPLZ.net> wrote in message
news:6IJI8.27350$l25.1295707@weber.videotron.net...
> On 28 May 2002 06:09:02 GMT, those who know me have no need of my name
wrote:
> ><5nAI8.17996$SQ4.1103147@wagner.videotron.net> divulged:
> >
> >>You can get away (and should try) with 53/udp only...
> >
> > silly. you'll cause failures when the response is larger than your
> > resolver can handle using udp.
> >
>
> Bind lover, eh? He CAN get away with that, provided there is no
> zone transfers. Any regular query should be less than 512 bytes and
> udp will do just fine... Having said that, I do have 53/tcp open
> on my fw :)



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