alternate port / alternate way for master DNS zone xfers ?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <01bf1704$d0d21480$0201010a at gary.ringways.co.uk>,
Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote:
>I know I'm jumping into this a bit late on, but I have a similar problem.
>
>I have my own network with it's own DNS and it all works fine. 
>My problem is that I have a link to someone else's network
>using a CISCO ISDN router that i have no control over.  My problem is 
>that I cannot get my DNS to forward requests for their DNS through the
>router.  If I nslookup using their server it works fine, but if I use my
>server it fails.  I need my named to talk to their named as though it
>was a client and not a named itself.  Is this possible?

What version of BIND is your server running?  If it's BIND 4, it forwards
recursive queries using a source port of 53.  Make sure that the router
allows UDP packets to port 53 back to you.

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