[WBEL-users] WBEL as a DNS server.

William Hooper whooperhsd2@earthlink.net
Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:35:18 -0500 (EST)


John Morris said:
> 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.

It's a fine line.  I definitely don't want a multi-NIC machine to suddenly
advertise my internal DNS to the world.  It is consistent with the other
servers provided (httpd doesn't open ports, ssh doesn't open ports, etc.)


-- 
William Hooper