RE: Securing DNS Server

["Daniel Miessler" <danielrm26 () hotmail com>]

> But it turned out that when our DNS Server has to query a root name
> server, it sends out a UDP query with a random higher (>1023) source
> port number, which means that I will have to open >1023 Ports access
to
> this server from outside.

You don't have to open ports on your firewall that correspond with the
source port number of your outgoing traffic.  You can make any DNS
queries without opening ports; you only need to open ports to OFFER
service, not to request it.  And even then, it is only going to be UDP
(and possibly TCP) port 53.

--Daniel