Re: chroot BIND Re: Task harden.
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
> It seems that there is no system call to read a UDP packet from a socket and
> discover which local address it was sent to. If you want your UDP based
recvfrom(2)
> server to use as the source address the same IP that the client sent the
> request to (necessary to attempt security) then you need to have multiple
> sockets.
OK, this answers my question. There isn't a way to send UDP packets out with
a set from address unless you bind to it. Now I would be happy if there
were a "ndc discif".
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