Weird BIND Behavior

netamaze · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 1

I have a new Gentoo installation that is having some trouble with BIND. I have iptables running on the box set to allow TCP across port 53. I was setting up some zones and testing them using dig. Everything works normally when I use dig locally, however when I try from a remote location it's not right. If I turn off iptables, all's well. If I turn on iptables, it works fine also for about 5 min. Then, dig will stop working from the outside. If I stop iptables its good again and will work for another 5 min or so after I restart it. However, if I do /etc/init.d/iptables restart dig will never connect. Iptables needs to be stopped for some small amount of time.

I'm at a bit of a loss...any ideas?

pakman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 100

Allow UDP aswell, DNS queries use that rather than TCP.

Deathwing00 · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject:

UDP port 53 should be set to ACCEPT