[CentOS] Help with iptables rule for blocking UDP port 53
Sean Carolan
scarolan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 17:00:30 UTC 2008
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:55 AM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote:
> Sean Carolan wrote:
>
>> What is confusing me is why my iptables rule is not working correctly.
>> TCPdump shows that the source is correct. Any ideas?
>
> try blocking tcp as well, most name servers listen on both tcp and
> udp.
I do have a rule for blocking TCP, forgot to mention that. You can
see from my tcpdump output above that the inbound packet is UDP
though. I wonder why iptables doesn't block it even with this rule?
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