Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bind() udp behavior 2.6.8.1 | From | Doug McNaught <> | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:45:54 -0500 |
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Adam Denenberg <adam@dberg.org> 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.
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