I can't gethost but other can.....

Wed Feb 19 13:07:23 UTC 2003

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Dermot Paikkos wrote:
>
> What is worrying me is that I am having trouble with another site
> www.aims.org.au and the domain dodo.com.au. I am concerned that
> it is my configuration that is damaged. I have checked the
router and
> UDP and TCP are open on port 53. I can't think of any thing
else to
> try :~|

When you manually try "dig" the query will come from a port
above 1023 to port 53 on the remote servers.

BIND 9 also defaults to this behaviour, no idea on BIND 8 (who
would run that? but older versions of BIND would both raise and
answer queries from port 53).

So it maybe your router stopping you "investigating" the
problem, but probably isn't the problem itself.

Can you successfuly "dig @209.246.126.109 demon.co.uk ns"
manually, or any other external DNS request with dig?