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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:43:47 -0500
From:      Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW redirect to another port?
Message-ID:  <20190619184346.GA34759@geeks.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190618165028.83C662015F9118@ary.qy>
References:  <20190618165028.83C662015F9118@ary.qy>

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On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 12:50:27PM -0400, John Levine wrote:
> I would like to use ipfw to redirect incoming port 53 requests from a
> few IP addresses to a different port, so I can use a custom DNS server
> to answer them.  I can figure out how to redirect their traffic to,
> say, port 5553, but the responses come from 5553 which of course
> doesn't work.
> 
> Any suggestions about how to adjust the port numbers going both ways?  It's
> fine if they screw up other traffic to those IPs.  TIA.

I would approach this differently.

I'd install dns/dnsdist to listen on port 53, and then with backends out
to your custom DNS server on port 5553.




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