Thanks for the help... After following your suggestion, I soon discovered that shorewall was not at fault, which prevented me wasting more time with it.To settle the matter about shorewall, just change your Shorewall conf/rules temporarily to log all reject actions instead of quietly dropping them. Analyze the log, and you will quickly see whether Shorewall has anything to do with the problem. If so, then you have the data (src, destination, ports, etc.) to cobble new rules.
By running "netstat -l" I soon found the problem, which was that in named.conf I had somehow added the line:
listen-on { 127.0.0.1 };
so it was only listening on the localhost interface, which explains why it worked from the firewall machine but not from any of my other local machines.
This line was not in my original Mandrake file... I think it must have come from my misuse of etc-update to merge config files!
- Steven
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