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ipchains can not forward dns resolve but pure ip forward success

frederick van targero — Fri, 14 Jun 2002 23:47:15 GMT

Dear all, i configure the ipchains so as to act as gateway, the ip has been forward sucessful, however, any dns resolove are block in this gateway,could any one tell my how to make it as normal gateway for a lan accessing internel, the dns.

thanks
frederick

Re: ipchains can not forward dns resolve but pure ip forward success

U.SivaKumar_2 — Sat, 15 Jun 2002 03:42:35 GMT

Hi,
Give this command for accepting DNS packets
#ipchains -A input -i eth1 -p udp -s 0/0 53 -d 0/0 1024:65535 -j ACCEPT
replace eth1 with you own interface.

regards,
U.SivaKumar