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[Barry Dean]

Thanks for this. All working now.

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 01:01 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <1226654628.8420.23.camel at pcbvd.liv.ac.uk>, "Dean, Barry" writes:
> 	There is a firewall sitting in front of the servers for
> 	bjmu.edu.cn that is blocking traffic from port 53.

	I think that there was, somewhere out there, blocking source port 53.


> 	Now your nameserver is most probably configured to use
> 	port 53 for out going queries.  You should remove that
> 	configuration setting and also ensure you are running
> 	a named version that randomises the source port of the
> 	UDP queries.

	I have, and I am. This was my mistake from an incorrect understanding
of the "query-source" directive. I must have thought that the "port 53"
bit was mandatory, but clearly I was having one of my senior moments.

	It all makes a lot more sense now...


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Barry Dean
Networks Team
Computing Services Department
Tel: 45641, Web: http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~bvd/
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