From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 3 10:48:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA12004 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcpsj.pfcs.com (LuGVY8WJLZsagUXZqzvb0FsO7sZoXOm9@harlan.fred.net [205.252.219.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA11980 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mumps.pfcs.com (mumps.pfcs.com [192.52.69.11]) by pcpsj.pfcs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA02236; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 13:47:56 -0400 Received: from localhost by mumps.pfcs.com with SMTP id AA27740 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Tue, 3 Jun 1997 13:47:55 -0400 To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improvements to rc.firewall? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jun 1997 19:38:47 +1000." Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 13:47:52 -0300 Message-Id: <27736.865360072@mumps.pfcs.com> From: Harlan Stenn Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk H> I checked this out by doing a tcpdump of my ppp link, and looked at H> all of the DNS traffic. Responses to my queries came in to *my* port H> 53. dOc> Are you running your own named locally? That would be why. Yes, I am. Thanks for the explanation. Perhaps we should explain that of somebody wants a working firewall they'll have to run a local (caching or forwarding only, even) nameserver, too. H