On Sunday 23 June 2002 5:36 am, Joe de Vera Jr. wrote: > > On Sunday 23 June 2002 5:01 am, Joe de Vera Jr. wrote: > > > here's my ruleset in my machine... seen anything wrong or lacking here? > > > just to remind you guys my problem is that.. when my firewall is running > > > my DNS don't work... thanks! > > > > Can we just clarify that last bit ? > > > > Do you mean that your firewall cannot resolve names by contacting an > > external > > DNS server, or that you are running DNS on your firewall, and other > > machines cannot contact *it* as a DNS server ? > > yep,, i'm running DNS on that machine also.. an that exactly my client > can't resolve from it.. so all the DNS record on that server can't function > due to this problem.. so i force not to run a firewall for a meantime...
Okay - the answer is simple, then. You have no rule allowing udp packets into the machine on port 53. Antony.
