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Re: Task harden.



xsdg <xsdg@softhome.net> wrote:
> How can bind bind (no pun intended) to port 53 if it isn't root?

By listening on 0 when it did have root privilege.  I've never understood
this, why does bind do dynamic binding instead of binding to IPADDRANY?
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