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Message-ID: <1044488441.15689.58.camel@utd49554.utdallas.edu>
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: SQL Slammer - lessons learned
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 13:45, Cushing, David wrote:
>
> Perhaps everyone should start indicating whether they are talking
> about source or destination ports.
>
> Paul was talking about the destination port that the server was
> listening on, which will always be 53 for a DNS server. The only
> DNS server that will accept a packet on UDP 1434 is a customized
> one.
>
Indeed. Mea culpa for not being specific enough in my statements.
>
> For all you simpletons who don't know how the internet works,
> Niels forgot to send you a link :)
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
> 4.2 - Transport
>
Thanks, David. I was beginning to think I was going to have to remain
in the dark. :-)
--
Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
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