Hello,

OK i better start at the beginning. I have a static IP connection via DSL. It connects to my ASL box where i have a second NIC running a 192.168.0.* network with ASL being .1. I have an internal Linux DNS server & unless i put the ASL private IP of 192.168.0.1 in the resolv.conf file i get failures pinging, digging etc. My ASL has DNS proxy going with two DNS IP's from my internet provider. If i disable it my whole network can no longer browse. I am wanting to be able to send requests from my internal machines to my DNS server for resolving. I am sure this is a firewall problem as i use to have this working fine when using smoothwall as my FW gateway.

I have a packet filter setup allowing port 53 requests. I also see alot of these in my DNS proxies log file

2005:01:20-21:00:00 (none) named[27381]: dumping nameserver stats
2005:01:20-21:00:00 (none) named[27381]: done dumping nameserver stats
2005:01:20-21:05:00 (none) named[27381]: dumping nameserver stats
2005:01:20-21:05:00 (none) named[27381]: done dumping nameserver stats
2005:01:20-21:10:00 (none) named[27381]: dumping nameserver stats
2005:01:20-21:10:00 (none) named[27381]: done dumping nameserver stats
2005:01:20-21:15:01 (none) named[27381]: dumping nameserver stats
2005:01:20-21:15:01 (none) named[27381]: done dumping nameserver stats

In my log on the DNS server which is 192.168.0.2 i see this type of log

Jan 20 20:44:19.316 resolver: debug 1: createfetch: Astaro HINFO
Jan 20 20:44:25.325 resolver: debug 1: createfetch: Astaro HINFO
Jan 20 20:44:25.325 resolver: debug 1: createfetch: Astaro HINFO
Jan 20 20:44:33.344 resolver: debug 1: createfetch: Astaro HINFO
Jan 20 20:44:33.345 resolver: debug 1: createfetch: Astaro HINFO

Any assistance with any of this would be greatly appreciated

Kind regards

Andrew