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Date:      Mon, 27 Jul 1998 09:22:03 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jay Tribick <netadmin@fastnet.co.uk>
To:        "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw rules to allow DNS activity
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980727092023.11044J-100000@bofh.fast.net.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980727005011.23978A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>

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Hi

| >I'm thinking of changing one of my boxes which is running bind (performing
| >primary secondary DNS functions) from
| >allow-anything-except-things-specifically-denied ipfw rules to
| >deny-everything-except-things-specifically-allowed rules (open vs closed?
| >hehe). Anyway, I was wondering what are the minimum rules necessary to
| >allow DNS queries/transfers from other servers to my server, and also to
| >allow queries from my server to other servers.

| >I tried a variety of rules from the rc.firewall file, but it's still
| >blocking some traffic, so there must be something I'm missing.

| 	Take a look at /etc/rc.firewall:
| 
|         # Allow DNS queries out in the world
|         ipfw add pass udp from any 53 to ${ip}
|         ipfw add pass udp from ${ip} to any 53
| 
| 	You will need to enable same setup as above but for tcp for zone
| 	transfers (someone correct me if I am wrong).
| 
| 	Also take a look at FreeBSD ipfw Configuration Page:
| 	http://www.metronet.com/~pgilley/freebsd/ipfw

AFAIK DNS zone-transfers are handled over via 53 aswell, I can't find
another listing for 'Domain Name Server' in /etc/services so I assume
the above will work fine.

Regards,

Jay Tribick
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