[WBEL-users] WBEL as a DNS server.

John Morris jmorris@beau.org
Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:07:23 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Samer Pharaon wrote:

> I have downloaded and installed the latest version (3.0a) of WBEL. What
> I want to achieve with this box is to make it a primary DNS server for
> my domain names. It connects to the Internet from behind a firewall (SME
> e-smith server). I set up the SME server to forward port 53 to the WBEL
> server and configured one domain as a test.

Make sure you open up port 53 on the built in firewalling, just starting 
up bind doesn't automatically do it.  Personally I'd consider that a 
misfeature but Red Hat doesn't.

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