Re: DNS and firewall (RRAS) problem

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From: Javier Gomez [SBS MVP] (javier_gomez_at_remove.this.engineer.com)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 21:06:53 -0400

You can do the reverse DNS stuff (PTR) with ZoneEdit. I wouldn't host it
myself.... why go through all that trouble + make your system less secure? 

-- 
Javier [SBS MVP]
<< SBS ROCKS !!! >>
"Chris" <Chris@ChrisOwen.org> wrote in message 
news:eQ9jBUDlEHA.3392@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> the reasoning for this is to host a primary and secondary zone in house (i
> know there are free ones) one of the main advantages for me to do this is
> reverse DNS lookups will not provide my ISPs dsl addressing ( i have a 
> block
> of 5 IP addresses that they will release to my DNS servers once i have 
> them
> up and running., i think what my problem was was setting the exception to 
> be
> on TCP instead of UDP.
>
> -Chris
>
> "Chris" <Chris@ChrisOwen.org> wrote in message
> news:#tqNYE#kEHA.644@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> I want to be able to set the DNS on this server to be a primary DNS for 
>> my
>> domain, however no matter what I do (even setting a incoming port
> exception
>> for TCP 53) it will not respond - just times out ... when doing a nifty
> port
>> scan it shows 53 as still being closed - any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>

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