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Date:      Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:00:59 -0400 
From:      "Higgins, James" <JHiggins@tele-optics.com>
To:        "'brian@awfulhak.org'" <brian@awfulhak.org>
Cc:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   FW: Re:  PPP problems continued.... TCP/IP logging attached
Message-ID:  <C1D38D7D7017D211855C00104B9B83FF43A3A5@HERMES>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Christopher Heschong [SMTP:chris@wiw.org]
> Sent:	Friday, April 09, 1999 11:49 AM
> To:	James Higgins
> Subject:	RE: PPP problems continued.... TCP/IP logging attached
> 
> 
> James Higgins <higginsj@iname.com> said: 
>  
> > > Maybe this is just a DNS thing.  I believe some DNS servers will
> only 
> > > accept traffic *from* port 53.  I think there's an option in bind
> 8 
> > > to make it conform to this.... 
> > 
> > Possible I guess, that does not really explain the problem of not
> being able 
> > to ping 151.141.27.40 by IP address. 
> > 
> > How can I force FreeBSD to use port 53 when querying the DNS?  The
> bind 
> > option is on the server side only correct? 
> 
> I'm fairly certain that bind can be configured (maybe by default) to
> only accept 
> connections from port 53, which is not what most clients use, they use
> something random.  
> It's configurable in Bind8.  An example is in the default config file.
> 
> Our DNS server here accepts connections from any client port.
>  
> -- 
> /chris/


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