Using Bind with Firewall

Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin at weiss.name
Wed Dec 3 18:21:19 UTC 2003


> Hello,
>
>
> I am using the default in stall of bind on a default install of Fedora 1.
>
> I opened tcp & udp port 53 on the firewall configuration but when I go to
another machine and try to nslookup using my name server it times out the
connection.
>
> I can use other ports no problem.
>
> Am I missing something in the way to open the firewall for bind to allow
me to perform lookups remotley?

Did you do a "service iptables restart" after you made the changes to your
/etc/sysconfig/iptables?

You might also want to post your /etc/sysconfig/iptables so that we can see
if it's configured correctly.

Ben





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