[H-GEN] Bind from behind a firewall

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Wed Sep 10 21:55:14 EDT 2003


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On 2003-09-11, Rick Phillips wrote:

> > What about UDP port 53?  That's what most DNS requests use, iirc.
> 
> OK - I have now added that port to the list of open ones - can you retry for
> me?

Yes, it's answering now and I can ping it as well.

BTW, you did say that you'd read up on DNS, which is why I had
not mentioned the fact that DNS uses UDP on the assumption that
you knew that.

Cheers, Greg

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