Folks, I've had some problems installing RHEL on a specific VLAN at work. The problem is that the loader does DNS requests but the router was dropping the DNS replies therefore the loader couldn't resolve its IP and the URL where the kickstart lived. Turns out that UDP packets heading toward the servers on this VLAN with destination port of 32768 are dropped by an ACL put in place to meet some security requirements of an out sourced credit card charging company. The security policy states some concerns that this is a port that solaris commonly uses for the NFS statd RPC server. The security folks here expressed concern that the loader wasn't randomizing the DNS port as normal resolvers do. I know the environment for the loader is pretty restrictive. Is it possible to choose a more random port and/or incriment the port used if DNS queries are failing? Jack -- Jack Neely <jjneely@xxxxxxxx> Campus Linux Services Project Lead Information Technology Division, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89
