How to ask a DNS resolver listening on a different port than the tcp/udp 53

[Terje Elde]

On 28. sep. 2013, at 15:50, Frank Leonhardt <frank2 at fjl.co.uk> wrote:

> Given that BIND can happily listen on ports other than 53 and OpenBSD allows a port to be specified against each nameserver in resolv.conf, it does not seem an unreasonable question to me.

Just to avoid any misunderstanding... 

Not sure if I misunderstood what you're trying to do, but the way I recall it, you have two boxes, one running with one recursive and one authoritative nameserver, and you wanted a second box to quey the recursive nameserver on the first box, which is running on another port than 53?

Given your setup, that's a valid question. 

It's getting down to patching the resolver I felt was a bit overkill, and a possible source of future pain. 

How to solve it is a perfectly valid question. 

Personally I'd just think it cleaner to solve it by running a caching resolver on the second host (on port 53), that could forward queries where you'd like, rather than patching or usik firewall redirects. 

Terje