Message-ID: <20030421232544.77490.qmail@web40811.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:26:20 -0500 From: jose sanchez <j_r_sanchez@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: UDP Port 53
> You can NOT arbitrarily set up a public DNS server
> and start advertising your
> IP as the home of arbitrary domain names. You need
> a chain of authoritative
> entries right back to the root servers that says
> your IP is the source of
> authority for that domain. One of the parties that
> would have to participate
> and cooperate in this scheme is RoadRunner, who owns
> your IP address and the
> domain name that is actually associated with it.
>
> I know one ISP who charges about $100 per domain to
> set up the proper DNS
> chain. I know another who does it as part of
> registering your domain name,
> pointing it at any IP you specify.
>
> As far as your UDP masking goes, you're not clear on
> whether you're trying to
> access UDP ports on your RR firewall from outside or
> whether you're doing
> stuff from within.
>
> How do you test your connections from outside your
> private net? (I often use
> an ssh connection to a remote machine, which I then
> point back at my own with
> lynx or telent.)
The query is from outside the LAN. I have a laptop
with AOL and run the host, nslookup programs. I don't
have a remote box that I can test it with.
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