UDP Port 53

[jose sanchez]

> 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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