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Date:      Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:29:26 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ipfw not allowing dns traffic
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102021528500.4881-100000@achilles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <000801c08d5e$5f4259c0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>

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On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Peter Brezny wrote:

> I thought I had everything.
>
> #	Allow DNS traffic from internet to query your DNS (for reverse
> #	lookups etc).
> 	$fwcmd add allow tcp from any 53 to $ns1 53 setup
> 	$fwcmd add allow udp from any 53 to $ns1 53
> 	$fwcmd add allow udp from $ns1 53 to any 53
>
> but nslookup's fail from outside the firewall on another machine in nslookup
> with server set to my firewall machine.
>
> What have i missed?
>
> Peter Brezny
> SysAdmin Services Inc.

Use dig.  nslookup does superfluous lookups which will display false
failures in many cases.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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