dhclient: Can't update forward map bogus ... timed out

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Mon Jun 11 19:15:17 UTC 2007


On Jun 11, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Noah wrote:
> I recently added firewall filters to my home linux box, and now I  
> am experiencing named errors.  I am running DDNS that sends out  
> updates for my dynamically assigned IP address for the router/linux  
> box at the edge of my home network.  It appears that those updates  
> periodically time out.  I can telnet from the linux box to port 53  
> of the DNS server just fine.

While DNS traffic can use 53/tcp, most DNS queries are done over UDP  
and not TCP.  Presumably you should adjust your firewall rules or  
improve the logging of your firewall rulesets so you can better  
understand where the issue is.

-- 
-Chuck



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