[ILUG] Weird DNS issue

[James Raftery]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 02:26:05PM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> # ipfwadm -I -a deny -P udp -S a.gtld-servers.net. 53
> # ipfwadm -I -a deny -P tcp -S a.gtld-servers.net. 53

I'd actually use -D to stop my nameservers even getting a query to it.
As an aside, the above mightn't work as responses won't necessarily have
a source port of 53. (Default BIND behaviour is random unpriv. port).

> Argh.

Quite.

Email dnsadm at netsol.com and make a fuss. I have :)

james
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