Service DNS and NTP from FC6

[John DeDourek]

Bledsoe, Howard W. CIV (CNRNW) wrote:
>         We have a nice, new, clean install of Fedora Core 6 -- and want 
> to use it, among other things, as a DNS server and NTP source.  I can 
> verify from the console and from SSH sessions that the DNS does resolve 
> correctly, and the NTP daemon does operate correctly.  Both DNS and time 
> service do what they're supposed to with respect to the local computer.
> 
>         However, I am unable to get the box to 'serve' these services.  
> DNS inquiries and NTP inquiries seem to be ignored from both Windoze and 
> other (older) Red Hat boxes.  I have told the firewall to allow port 53 
> and 123 traffic -- and have even disabled the firewall completely (we 
> are not connected to the Internet).
> 
>         This appears as if the named and ntpd are not listening on their 
> designated ports.  Any idea on how I can verify that?  How can I make 
> this server serve?
> 
>                    TIA, Howard
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> Communications Project Manager,*/ Navy Region Northwest/*
> 
> 
Just one other thing.  Make sure that you told the firewall to
open UDP (not TCP) port 123 for ntp.  Again, I don't run DNS,
but I seem to recall that it wants both TCP and UDP opened for
port 53.