Extracted from the mind of Rhett R. Rodewald;
>Any DNS / Firewall experts out there?
>I have 2 PCs routed thru my A4000 to a 56K modem to the 'net. Works
>beautifully as long as I'm running Win95/98. But when I reboot my primary PC
>into QNX (beta) or BeOS (Personal), DNS lookups don't work. If I go into
>Miami and Disable the firewall, then things work again.
>Does un*x/QNX/BeOS/etc do something weird with the DNS lookups that MiamiDX
>doesn't expect? This seems weird to me -- I haven't spent a lot of time
>tracking it down yet, but I would think that a DNS lookup would work the same
>regardless of platform. Anyway, I assume that I need to manually configure
>MiamiDX's firewall. Any particular pointers or gotchas I should watch for?
>Thanks in advance.
> --Rhett
>(P.S. I share files w/ Samba too, but I don't think that should matter.)
It's the firewal and ephemeral ports. What works for me is to add
accept tcp (blank) 48000/65535 and
accept udp (blank) 48000/65535
to the firewall settings in MiamiDx. Oh and set the firewall to auto.
-ash
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