Roadrunner

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sun May 27 08:06:04 EDT 2001


I'm not sure. Maybe someone out there who is running a DNS server can 
answer it. I might just set one up and try. I run the 4 port with firmware 
1.37, Jan 03 2001.
The current firmware for the 4 port is 1.385.
Seth Gordon wrote:

> The problem is NAT: you can open up port 53, and the nameserver can
> respond to incoming requests, but when that response hits the
> firewall, its return address doesn't get rewritten with the firewall's
> address; thus, the host that issued the original request doesn't
> realize it's gotten a response.
> 
> At least, that was my diagnosis when I was trying to run tinydns
> behind a Linksys, and I think I tried every trick on the Web form
> before giving up, buying a second hub, and putting the nameserver
> outside the firewall.  Maybe more recent versions of the firmware fix
> this problem, or maybe the four-port Linksys is smarter about this
> than the one-port Linksys.
> 
> -- 
> "Rav would never cross a bridge when an idolator was on it; he said, 'Maybe h
> e
> will be judged and I will be taken with him.'  Shmuel would only cross a
> bridge when an idolator was on it; he said, 'Satan cannot rule two nations [a
> t
> once].'  Rabbi Yannai would examine [the bridge] and cross."  --Shabbat 32a
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