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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:07:32 -0800
From:      Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
To:        "Dustin Puryear" <dpuryear@usa.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firewall question for public DNS server
Message-ID:  <20011220140732.4f206f64.steve@velosystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <PGECILGGNJGDPJKLFEMIEEGMCKAA.dpuryear@usa.net>
References:  <PGECILGGNJGDPJKLFEMIEEGMCKAA.dpuryear@usa.net>

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On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:52:33 -0600
"Dustin Puryear" <dpuryear@usa.net> wrote:

> I am having problems configuring a FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE firewall to allow a
> DNS server to work. When I say "work" I mean it is unable to resolve names.
> Instead, it just times out. Please note that we are using static NAT. Also,
> the DNS server is NOT located on the firewall. (On a related note, if I run
> a DNS server on the firewall it works.) The DNS server does have a public IP
> address via the static NAT mapping, but I would think it should work
> regardless. At least, for resolving names.

I use ipfilter, not ipfw, but I didn't think you used NAT if you have public IPs. I think ipfilter's bimap function took care of it. 

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