Re: Port 53 Forwarding.

In article <bfh8ro$1cfe$1@sf1.isc.org>, sams <sams@freeddns.org> wrote:
>I made a port 53 forwarding from my firewall to my internal DNS Bind
>server. However when I tested from outside firewall with dig tool it didnt
>work. The same command works inside the network, which confirms the DNS
>Bind Server is working accordingly.
>
>Now my question is, is ISC Bind server users Port 53 or other? I didnt
>change anything while install Bind and Does it use UDP or TCP?

Yes, it uses port 53 unless you override this in a listen-on option. It
listens on both UDP and TCP; normally, queries use UDP and zone transfers
use TCP.

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