Re: 2 forwarded messages...DNSEXT discussion of Day and Kaminsky

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Paul Jarc wrote:

> Dean Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The randombind() function tries 10 times to allocate a port, and if that
> > fails, the port given by the kernel is used. So the port bound by
> > randombind() is not a strong random number.  This is a side-effect of
> > the Kaminksy/Day/King patch
> 
> It sounds like you're saying Jeff's patches modify the randombind()
> function to introduce this fallback, but that's not true.  The
> fallback is already in unpatched dnscache.

I didn't say that.  But since you appear to be willfully distorting my 
statements, I'm done with you.

		--Dean


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