Re: Dig: specifying a source port

Jason Richards wrote:

>That only allows you to specify the source address, not the source port.
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>>How did you determine this wasn't "natively available"? The dig version
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>included in BIND 9.2.2-P3 and later has a
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>>-b option which allows you to set the source port.
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Sorry, I misread your question.

However, since there is already code in dig to bind() to a specific
address, seems like it would be a fairly trivial patch to have it bind()
to a particular port as well. Not much to go wrong there. I'll have to
side with the folks who think this is more of an OS issue or a basic
network programming issue, than a problem with the patch _per_se_.


- Kevin