Is port 53 required for both incoming and outgoing

[Ken Hays]

Eric, You can probably have a daemon running. But, ...

How are queries to get to it if you do not open port 53 
coming into the unit? 

Later, Ken
Eric Smith wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> We have a primary NS on a network which has port 53 open for
> outgoing traffic only tcp and udp - not incoming traffic.
> 
> Is it still possible to run bind on this machine which is the
> primary NS for a domain?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Eric SMith

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