full-disclosure - SQL Slammer

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From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne)
Subject: SQL Slammer - lessons learned

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, David Howe wrote:

> at Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:32 PM, Niels Bakker
> <niels=netsys@...ker.net> was seen to say:
> > Please learn how the Internet works.  BIND8 and up don't use 53 as
> > source for outgoing queries anymore by default; you can override this
> > in named.conf with
> I don't think it really matters what port bind replies on - but it is
> worth remembering that dns is udp, and queries could well come *from*
> port 1434 on a client (so blocking replies)


of course the client will reissue the request on aonther port and  get the
info required.  No harm done.


Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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