[H-GEN] Bind from behind a firewall

[Rick Phillips]

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>
> By the looks of it your machine doesn't seem to allow queries
> on the external
> interface.
>

Yes - this is my problem

> Well my first suggestion would be to check the binding of
> named to make sure
> it is bound to use a source port of 53 and check which is in
> the logs when you
> are running it.  I would also make sure that your firewall
> indeed has a hole
> in it to let DNS queries through.

The firewall is definitely open to port 53.

My syslog has the following two entries after "restart" of named - do these
two entries confirm binding?

Sep 11 07:28:11 hegwig named[5506]: listening on IPv4 interface lo,
127.0.0.1#53
Sep 11 07:28:11 hegwig named[5506]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0,
192.168.2.185#53

Regards,

Rick



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