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From: Goetz Bock <netfilter@blacknet.de>
To: "Netfilter Mailing List (E-mail)" <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: firewalled dns clients
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:24:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031107102425.GE11702@shell.blacknet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F22386C3FEB012449238672E38ED61E706C26A@overlord.overturemedia.com>


On Fri, Nov 07 '03 at 11:49, Fritz Mesedilla wrote:
> From their windows workstation, I want to be able to let them perform a nslookup.
> 
> I tried this and nothing happened.
> $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT
> even a
> $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
nslookup/dns needs udp, too. And you must use the FORWARD chain if you
don't run the dns server on the firewall.

What about having a look at the rules produced by some of the
firewall generation scripts. e.g. fireHOL. (-> firehol.sf.net)
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-07 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-07  3:49 firewalled dns clients Fritz Mesedilla
2003-11-07  4:46 ` Alistair Tonner
2003-11-07 10:24 ` Goetz Bock [this message]
2003-11-07 10:33 ` Chris Brenton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-07  5:05 Fritz Mesedilla
2003-11-10  5:01 Fritz Mesedilla

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