alternate port / alternate way for master DNS zone xfers ?
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Oct 15 19:45:14 UTC 1999
In article <01bf1704$d0d21480$0201010a at gary.ringways.co.uk>,
Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote:
>I know I'm jumping into this a bit late on, but I have a similar problem.
>
>I have my own network with it's own DNS and it all works fine.
>My problem is that I have a link to someone else's network
>using a CISCO ISDN router that i have no control over. My problem is
>that I cannot get my DNS to forward requests for their DNS through the
>router. If I nslookup using their server it works fine, but if I use my
>server it fails. I need my named to talk to their named as though it
>was a client and not a named itself. Is this possible?
What version of BIND is your server running? If it's BIND 4, it forwards
recursive queries using a source port of 53. Make sure that the router
allows UDP packets to port 53 back to you.
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