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To: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
Cc: dnsop@cafax.se
From: Ed Sawicki <ed@alcpress.com>
Date: 20 Feb 2003 13:56:19 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20030220211400.GA14720@outpost.ds9a.nl>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: Why one port?

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 13:14, bert hubert wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:03:15AM -0800, Ed Sawicki wrote:
> > I'm wondering why there is only one UDP port assigned to the DNS
> > protocol? It prevents us from using both an iterative name
> > server and a recursive name server/cache on the same computer
> > when only one IP address is available. 
> 
> Well, that is partly due to the wording of 1034 and 1035 which pretty much
> mention 'local cache' and 'local database' in one breath.
> 
> And indeed, this is a big mistake. Right now, you can't even differentiate
> based on the RD bit. Compare it to running Squid and Apache both on port 80.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> bert

Shouldn't we try to fix it?

-- 
Ed Sawicki <ed@alcpress.com>
ALC

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