Ipchains Woes

53 UDP

Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> More developments with my ipchains situation is that if I put
> ipchains -A input -p icmp -i eth1 -j ACCEPT
> where eth1 is my internet connection, I can successfully ping hosts if I
> use numeric i/p addresses. However, I still can't get responses from my
> DNS. I think I need to open up a port for responses from a DNS. Even the
> dig command hangs. Do you know what port and protocol should be opened up
> for DNS replies?
>
> I don't have a thurough knowlege of TCP/IP just yet <sigh> and my
> /etc/services doesn't have an entry for dns. It has one for domain (port
> 53) but trying that didn't do it for me either.
>
> Any more ideas? Starting to break through this thing once and for all:).
>
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