[Twisted-Python] twisted listening on UDP port, why?

[Phil Mayers]

On 20/04/16 01:01, Glyph wrote:

> Perhaps this is libc's DNS client?  Twisted doesn't do anything like this.

It does something similar with win32reactor IIRC?

http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/tags/releases/twisted-16.1.1/twisted/internet/posixbase.py#L60

...but that binds to 127.0.0.1 not 0.0.0.0

glibc doesn't hold it's DNS sockets open AFAIK - it closes them once the 
reply is done.