In message <865284.37771...@web36203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Shi Jin writes:
> 
> > "host unreachable" is one of the clearer error messages, so
> > you need
> > to do some digging. From the box that you've set up bind9
> > on you'll
> > need to use dig to query the ISP's name servers. If that
> > works, then
> > you'll have to use tcpdump on that box to find out what
> > named is doing.
> > 
> > Doug
> > 
> Thank you very much.
> Your suggestion to use "tcpdump" actually is very helpful. It clearly shows:
>  ICMP host 216.171.238.67 unreachable - admin prohibited, length 87

Yet you claim that dig to 216.171.238.67 works.  I think you need to provide
a full trace not the summary that a plain tcpdump gives.

Add  -Xvvv to the set of flags you used with tcpdump.

> So I think this most likely has to do with the firewall setup. Probably I 
> should enable ICMP redirect? Could anyone confirm? And
>  is this safe?
> 
> Thank you very much.
> Shi
> 
> 
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