Joseph Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi there,
you should maybe post here the named.conf configuration file ans the resolv.conf files of all the parties involved: server/firewall/client_test > Hello, > > > I have been fighting with SNF, trying to get a DNS Server to work > with port forwarding. The DNS Server works fine if the machine that it is > on has a real ip. When I move it behind SNF, I start having troubles. I > have been testing the dns server with the host command from a computer on > the private network. > > First let me say that I have port forwarded several services > through the Firewall, and all to the same server that is running DNS. > These are ftp, http, ssh, pop3, imap, dns, smtp. The first test was to a > external name server, to look up yahoo.com and it worked great. Then I > pointed the same request to my dns server and that too worked great!! So > I pointed a request to my dns server for a domain that is handling. That > too worked well. But when I pointed this same request to a external dns > server, it failed. All dns request originating from behind the firewall > will work, but if the dns request originates from the internet, it will > fail??? > > I turned on logging of all denyed packets, and there are no > packets from these request being denyed. All other forwarded services > work well. What could be the problem??? Has anyone had simular > problems??? I saw the earlier discussion of the FTP and transparent proxy > conflict problem, could this be a simular problem??? Any help would be > wonderfull!! > > Thanks, > > Joseph > > > > > > -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com
