Re: Why one port?

[Brad Knowles]

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.

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