To:
Ed Sawicki <ed@alcpress.com>
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Date:
Fri, 21 Feb 2003 01:25:33 +0100
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<1045767795.1155.135.camel@red>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: Why one port?
At 11:03 AM -0800 2003/02/20, Ed Sawicki wrote:
> I'm wondering why there is only one UDP port assigned to the DNS
> protocol?
That's the way the standard was originally written.
> 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.
Yup. That's a big problem for programs that can't handle both
functions in one codebase.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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