On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Is a udp packet from source port 53 to dest port 53 kosher? I would have > expected the source port to be in the high range.
No, there's no reason for a source port to be a high number. It'll just be another DNS server doing a query, and being tricky by using 53 over again. Might even be considered a feature, if you've got a lot of outgoing UDP connections - doesn't waste a port. Not a particularly pressing consideration, however. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
