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Re: cannot get node dns program to work externally

From Lck Ras <likcoras@riseup.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: cannot get node dns program to work externally
Date 2017-08-06 04:40 +0200
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On 08/06/2017 10:42 AM, Aaron Gray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a node.js based dns program on port 53 and have it working as
> localhost on debian 8.5 but I cannot seem to get it to work externally
> despite getting the firewall rules right having tested them with Bind9.

Check if it's listening on localhost. Make sure that the server is not
listening on 127.0.0.1 'ss -unl'. Otherwise, you need to do a bit of
forwarding magic, but listening on the proper interface is a cleaner
solution, I believe.

> I have mainly been using :-
> 
>     https://github.com/tjfontaine/node-dns/blob/master/examples/forwarder.js

>From what I can see from the code you linked, 127.0.0.1 is hardcoded.
Make sure you change that.

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cannot get node dns program to work externally Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail.com> - 2017-08-06 03:50 +0200
  Re: cannot get node dns program to work externally Lck Ras <likcoras@riseup.net> - 2017-08-06 04:40 +0200
  Re: [nodejs] Re: cannot get node dns program to work externally Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 23:40 +0200

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