"John Sanborn" <jsanborn at earthlink.net>  wrote:
> I added the allow-query statement to the options section at the top
> of named.conf and restarted DNS but no change. I also changed the
> /ect/resolv.conf file, however; how do you keep dhcp from changing
> it when it gets eth0 ip information from the dsl modem?

That depends upon which distro you're using.  In Debian (and possibly
Fedora), there is a configuration file called /etc/network/interfaces
used by the "ifupdown" package.  This can work in concert with the
"resolvconf" to provide "dns-" options for the interface, though there
may be better ways to do this.  You could make the /etc/resov.conf
file immutable and only rely upon the local bind server for name
resolution.  "chattr +i FILE" I believe.

> I'm pretty sure the firewall isn't blocking anything because I
> copied all the same iptables rules from the Fedora Core 3 Bible and
> that set of rules just sets up masquerade for the LAN, blocks
> everything from outside but web and ftp, etc (which I didn't allow
> from outside), but all the traffic inside the LAN is allowed. So
> anything at all should be able to pass between two LAN ips.
> (any more thoughts?)

Add a logging rule just before dropping packets for a given chain.

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