Hi,

I didn't see this behaviour with netstat in FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
Does this mean that netstat in NetBSD is just different?? 

netstat -an still shows the port:

vua-y->/root> netstat -an
Active Internet connections (including servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address       
State
tcp        0      0  192.168.1.8.22         192.168.1.13.1210     
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0  *.22                   *.*                   
LISTEN
udp        0      0  *.61050                *.*    <==== 
udp        0      0  *.514                  *.*
Active UNIX domain sockets
[snip]

Thanks,

Hoang

--- Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> wrote:
> > According to netstat, I have port udp 65336 in listening
> > mode. If I do another netstat -a, that number changes
> > to another number of the range 65k.
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me what is that port for?
> > 
> > I'm seeing this with my 1.4W and 1.4.1
> 
> when you do netstat -a, the netstat program looks up hostnames for
> the
> addresses it finds.  it uses a udp port for this and needs to listen
> for responses from the nameservers it's asking.  each time you run
> it,
> it gets a different port since these (ephemeral) port numbers are
> given out arbitrarily.
> 
> try netstat -an and see if the port disappears...
> 
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