Not able to resolve external names

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9s74gg$5qr at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
John Ross  <john.ross at informix.com> wrote:
>I am having a problem with BIND 4.9x.  Just recently it has decided to not
>resolve external names (ie www.yaho.com <http://www.yaho.com> , etc.).
>Internal names resolve correctly, but external names just time out, or
>resolve minutes later.  I have checked my connectivity to the root servers
>and I can both ping by address, and traceroute via port 53, so it appears
>that I can reach them.   I recently pulled a copy of the current root
>servers, so that should be correct.  I am pulling my hair out over this one,
>because unless I am missing something, everything looks fine.

If you're using BIND 4.x, the source port of queries that it sends out will
be 53.  Maybe you have a firewall that's blocking inbound UDP to port 53.

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