On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:23 -0600, John Jolet wrote: > On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, kashani wrote: > > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> I've gotten my named server working like I want it to, except that > >> computers outside my network can't see it. I've opened up port 53 > >> on my > >> router so that extra-network hosts could use it, but they still > >> can't. > >> I'm not running a firewall on my server box as far as I know. How > >> can I > >> find what's causing this? > > > if you are going to open up ports on your router, I would STRONGLY > suggest you go ahead and set up some iptables rules on your server. > Just 16+ years of sysadmin paranoia talking.... > > > What ever you did in the last 5 minutes seems to have fixed it as > > an nmap against your box showed no DNS ports open originally and > > now it does. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dig @espersunited.com www.espersunited.com > > > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > > ;www.espersunited.com. IN A > > > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > > www.espersunited.com. 10800 IN CNAME > > bullet.espersunited.com. > > bullet.espersunited.com. 10800 IN A 192.168.1.2 > > > > kashani > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
The router provides my firewall. I already have ports open for sshd, www, smtp, ftp, pop3, and imap. Why would I need another firewall on the PC itself? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
