Greetings!

Rick Brown wrote:

> So if I set up my ISP's nameservers as forwarders on
> my internal DNS server, what traffic do I need to
> allow through my Checkpoint firewall?  What can I do
> to make it as secure as possible?  


DNS-UDP (udp/53) out only. The answer should get back because of the 
stateful inspection(tm) if the firewall is set up accordingly. Depending 
on request you may need TCP out too - if there are long DNS names to be 
expected (rarely the case) - or if you want to do DNS debugging.

Bye
        Volker

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Volker Tanger  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Wrangelstr. 100, 10997 Berlin, Germany
     DiSCON GmbH - Internet Solutions
          http://www.discon.de/

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