RE: SQL Slammer - lessons learned

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

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. :-)

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Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
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The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
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