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When a client makes a request to a DNS process that does not have the result loaded authoritatively or cached, it performs recursion to retrieve the result. According to RFC2181 (section 4.2), the UDP source port for recursive queries should be the well-known port assigned for DNS, but may not be. Using a non well-known port as the source port for DNS recursion should not interfere with expected behavior of DNS.