AXFR probs on cable modem

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a8ab8j$ac7 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Dougal Campbell <dougal at gunters.org> wrote:
>
>I was recently helping a friend set up a server on a cable modem
>connection (w/static IP, using a "DMZ host" feature on the cable modem
>router to forward traffic to the server). Most services have tested
>out okay (sshd, httpd, ftpd, etc.), but I've run into a snag with
>named. I was going to set up his machine (running Redhat 7.2, BTW) as
>a primary DNS server, and use one of my external servers to provide
>secondary DNS for him. I've got named running, and it's responding to
>normal queries for his zone, but I can't get the secondary to transfer
>the zone.
>
>I've got "allow-transfer { any; };" in the zone config, and locally, I
>can use dig to do an AXFR. But when I try it from an external host, I
>run into problems. From one of my hosts, I get a long timeout,
>followed by a "connection refused" error. From another host, I get an
>immediate "no route to host" error (even though I can connect to other
>services from these same hosts).
>
>I've tried cranking up the logging, but there are no messages given.
>Anybody got a clue to spare?

Make sure you've got the router configured to forward both TCP and UDP port
53 to the nameserver.

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