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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2001 15:27:16 +1300
From:      "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>
To:        "Chris Angell" <root@chrisangell.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: DNS Question
Message-ID:  <LNBBIBDBFFCDPLBLLLHFMEHJJCAA.juha@saarinen.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102061807030.41925-100000@redqueen.chrisangell.com>

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Ports 42 TCP/UDP were used by an older name server protocol than DNS (which
uses 53 UDP/TCP). IEN 116, written by the late Jon Postel, if you want to
look it up.

The sockstat and netstat commands (e.g netstat -a | grep LISTEN) should tell
you if something's listening on that port or not.

-- Juha

:-? -----Original Message-----
:-? From: Chris Angell [mailto:root@chrisangell.com]
:-? Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 3:08 PM
:-? To: Juha Saarinen
:-? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
:-? Subject: RE: DNS Question
:-?
:-?
:-? Do  you  know what runs on port 42 then?  It says:
:-?
:-? nameserver       42/tcp    Host Name Server
:-? nameserver       42/udp    Host Name Server
:-?
:-? In the well known ports file.
:-?
:-? Chris Angell
:-?



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