January 9th, 2004, 12:41 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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Port 53 is the port that your authoritative DNS server (if you're running one, that is) listens on. If you're trying to resolve an address (which means, you probably are querying some other authoritative name server), your computer selects a random port # (above 1024, since port #s below 1024 are reserved for well known services) and connects to port 53 on the other end. Hence, you will need to configure your firewall to allow outgoing connections from higher port #s and to preserve their state.
With that said, this is an iptables config issue, not a DNS issue. Therefore, you should post this to the Linux forum, where you might get a better reply.
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