On 09/26/01 at 17:43, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:

> I was thinking of rolling my own RBL using rbldns, for fun, but also 
> to use as well. FWIW, rbldns is a tersely-documented part of djbdns 
> described at <http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html>.
> 
> Anyway, rbldns "listens for UDP packets on port 53." So, when SIMS 
> makes a query to any of the destinations in its RBL DNS Servers List, 
> is it sending UDP packets to port 53?

The DNS protocol uses UDP on port 53 (hence the rbldns statement), so yes,
when SIMS sends a blacklist DNS query, it would be over UDP port 53.

                   Christopher Bort | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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