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[ILUG] iptables and DNS

[ILUG] iptables and DNS

John P. Looney john at antefacto.com
Tue Jan 22 12:52:43 GMT 2002


On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:48:32PM +0000, Dave Hickey mentioned:
> I have a network with 2 DNS servers behind the firewall. The firewall is a 
> 2.4.17 kernel on redhat 7.1 (all updates applied). Netfilter is built into the 
> kernel.
> 
> The rules on the firewall are set to allow forwarding of all UDP traffic from 
> anywhere to anywhere. The INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD chains have default 
> policies of accept.
> 
> When I query the DNS for a zone that it is authoritative for I get an answer. 
> If I query a zone that it is not authoritative for I get a time out after 2 
> seconds. If I run the same query on the dns server I get an answer.

 Let TCP in & out too. Some DNS requests are done with TCP.
 
Kate

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