To:
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Ed Sawicki <ed@alcpress.com>
Date:
21 Feb 2003 00:44:03 -0800
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<a05200f44ba7b225261dc@[10.0.1.4]>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: Why one port?
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:25, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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. I want my systems to be as secure from attack as possible. To me, this means never allowing both functions to be provided by the same codebase. -- Ed Sawicki <ed@alcpress.com> ALC #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.