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→Firewall rules update
Remember that you are supposed to have a working firewall on your '''vm1''' (and every other machine), but we will focus on our vm1 machine for now. A <u>working</u> firewall will block requests to ports that you didn't explicitly allow. This means that at this point, your DNS server, even though it's perfectly configured, is <u>'''inaccessible'''</u> to any other machine because iptables won't allow the requests to come in (the machine can communicate with itself using the rule that allows all traffic on the '''lo''' interface).
# You will need to update the firewall on '''vm1''' to allow <u>incoming</u> connections to '''port 53 for both UDP and TCP''' (i.e. the protocol and port that DNS uses).# After you have updated your firewall, then save your iptables rules using whatever means worked for you in the iptables labs and add it to a shell script. '''NOTE:''' You could just disable the firewall '''but that is a poor workaround! ''' You are expected to be able to handle configuration (such as this) at this point in this course.
