>How can you use DNS and not open port 53?

depends on whether you have specialized your DNS machines are not.  You can 
run a caching-only DNS for your inside ip�s that is not query-able from 
internet, so you can block 53 to that DNS.

but if a DNS is to be query-able, it needs 53 udp/tcp open.

Len


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