Another strange dns question (and I have RTFM)

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 10:34 -0800, Roy S. Rapoport wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:15:11AM +0000, Nick Brooks wrote:
> > I'm in the process of upgrading my server at home and have migrated from 
> > RH 7 to Fedora Core 3.
> [...]
> > 	; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @192.168.1.100 demon.net
> > 	;; global options:  printcmd
> > 	;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> 
> This is kind of silly, so my apologies for stating the obvious, but at
> least some flavours of RH (I use RHEL3 at work) seem to come with firewall
> enabled by default these days.  Is it possible that by default your FC3
> configuration is firewalling port 53?
> 
> You might want to turn on query logging and seeing if the system gets it;
> you might also want to use tcpdump to see if you see this traffic, though I
> don't recall off the top of my head whether tcpdump works at a level lower
> or higher than the firewall.
> 
> -roy
> 

Another thing to check with FC3 is the SELinux settings.
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G. Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
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