DNS and IPTables

[nathan r. hruby]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Andrew Jacobs wrote:

> I'm trying to set up a simple DNS server on YDL 3.0, but somehow I 
> can't figure out what's going on with my IPTables--they seem to be 
> stopping DNS traffic from passing through.  If I stop my IPTables, the 
> DNS works just fine.  Also if I query locally, it works as well.  
> Here's the command I've entered:
> 
> iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 --destination-port 53 -j ACCEPT
> 
> Shouldn't that be enough?  Doing a tcpdump reveals a prompt "udp port 
> domain unreachable [tos 0xc0] ."
> 

what does an iptables -L say?

-n
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