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[Julian DeMarchi <julian AT jdcomputers.com.au>]

On 12/02/2010 03:00 AM, Noah Silas wrote:
> I'm pretty certain that DNS on alternate ports is directly supported by the
> BSD family; I thought that I could set this up easily in MacOS as well, but
> it seems to be troublesome. Has anybody here ever had success using DNS
> services on an alternate port under Linux / MacOS?
> 
> In the worst case, I could set up a little daemon to listen on my local port
> 53 and forward it to a DNS server listening on an alternate port. =)
> ~Noah

Or you can do some black iptables magic. redirect port 53 to your
non-standard port.

--julian