[Wlug] DNS Resolve from the Internet

[Peter Gutowski]

> Hello:
>
> Please help me get this straight. I am confused. I
> have a dnscache running at home on a DMZ network. I
> would like to know if I can have friends on other
> networks (in the Internet) to use my server as their
> resolver server?
>
Provided neither you nor your service provider are blocking access to that
port it should be easily possible.

> I have a firewall in place but, I'm directing all the
> udp traffic to port 53 to my dns-server; also my
> dnscache server is accepting connections from those
> networks ip's.
>
> Can I do this or do I need to register ($$$$$) a the
> dns-server?
>

I've set up a few official and several ad hoc name servers and have never
needed to do much that was hardly official. In the case of registering a
domain, you do need to provide the IP addresses of registered hosts, but
there was not a specific charge from network solutions, and they seem to
be great ones for finding ways of charging you for things.

-PG


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