Re: bind() udp behavior 2.6.8.1

[Adam Denenberg]

but this would be an issue with glibc then correct?


On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 15:45, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Adam Denenberg <adam@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > sorry for any confusion, but i am not referring to the Identification
> > field in the IP header but rather the "Transaction ID" field in the DNS
> > query portion of the packet.  I can reproduce this behavior on our linux
> > system where if i pump gethostbyname_r requests on the system at some
> > point it will reuse a transaction id in the DNS request.  This is my
> > lastest discovery in what is causing the requests to fail thru the
> > firewall.  So far my research has not turned up any reason as to why the
> > kernel would be re-using a transaction ID in the dns request.
> 
> That would be your DNS software reusing the transaction ID, since it's
> part of the packet data, not the UDP header.  The kernel has nothing
> to do with it.
> 
> -Doug
> 

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