[H-GEN] Bind from behind a firewall

[Jay]

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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:55, Rick Phillips wrote:
> I have been having a huge struggle getting Bind 9 to work from behind an
> ADSL modem/router/firewall.  I have read a great deal about DNS over the
> last week and have, I believe, correctly configured the name server as a
> "Bastion" name server i.e. presenting an external and internal view.  I
> have also uncommented the line in the conf file which "forces" it to listen
> on port 53.  Port 53 of course is open trough the firewall.

If your box 192.168.2.185 is connected to the Internet through your ADSL 
modem/router/firewall, which appears to have the outside world ip-address 
203.63.166.202 then you will have to make a NAT entry in your ADSL modem to 
allow incoming traffic to 192.168.2.185 on port 53.

Cheers

Johannes
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