Comments | sylvar: I'm not an idiot! Hooray!

sylvar

I'm not an idiot! Hooray!

Jun 15, 2006 09:37

I was kind of scared to take a SANS quiz, but I ended up getting better than 80% and a perfect 100% on the TCP/IP and Hex Quizzes respectively. Okay, so I need to learn more about TCP, but that's still pretty good.

And I have the chutzpah to respectfully disagree with one true/false question. Servers DO use ephemeral ports, just not qua ( Read more... )

sans, tcp/ip, quizzes, networking

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h_postmortemus July 16 2006, 01:17:46 UTC

A server will not use an ephemeral port to establish a connection to a DNS server. All DNS requests are sent out on port 53. The response may come back on an ephemeral port, but the server does not *listen* on an ephemeral port.

If you don't understand how that is, you'll need to practice more. :)

It's a tricky question, because it's so simple seeming.