bind and firewall

Pete Ehlke pde at ehlke.net
Thu Feb 20 15:33:39 UTC 2003


On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:07:47PM -0000, Pedro Marques wrote:
> 
> Now that bind is up and running ok, it's time to add the respective rules to
> the firewall.
> 
> ACCEPT UDP 53 for everyone
> ACCEPT TCP 53 for my secondary dns server
> 
> Is there anything I should do? Should I open TCP 53 for everyone? (my
> firewall logfile shows some attempts of connections to that port).
> 
Both udp and tcp are necessary for name servers to function properly at
all times for all clients.

-Pete


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