can only query locally

[Tommy]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:09:55 +0000, Ronan Flood wrote:


> 
> You mentioned iptables in your first message.  Are you allowing
> traffic to/from port 53, at least UDP?  Queries from your server
> will be going out to port 53 on remote servers from (usually) a
> high port, and the responses back will come from port 53 to
> the originating high port.  Queries from outside will come from
> high ports to port 53 on your server, and the responses back will
> go from port 53 to the originating high port.  You have to allow
> both directions.

Thanks for your help.  iptables was only accepting tcp on 53
I changed it and everything seems fine.  I presume that my ip changes wil be
distributed eventually.

Regards,

Tom