From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 15: 7:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.tele-optics.com (unknown [208.147.224.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E75215D32 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 14:49:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from JHiggins@tele-optics.com) Received: by HERMES with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:00:59 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Higgins, James" Reply-To: higginsj@iname.com To: "'brian@awfulhak.org'" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: FW: Re: PPP problems continued.... TCP/IP logging attached Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:00:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----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 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message