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StrikedOut
May 29, 2015Aspirant
Open recursive resolver
Hi. I have a FVS336GV2 but I have received the following email from our ISP, what do you advise? Hello, You appear to be running an open recursive resolver at IP address 78.XXX.XXX.XXX that p...
StrikedOut
Jun 01, 2015Aspirant
OK. So I got the call to say that the site no longer has internet access which I knew was the change I made, this was confirmed when I un-did the change and everything started working.
So I made a change to the firewall, under inbound traffic I blocked DNS:UDP port 53. If my understanding is correct this should have the desired affect, does this sound and look right to you guys??

I am also curious about the other rules in there as it wasn't me that added them and they look very open to me, what are your thoughts?
So I made a change to the firewall, under inbound traffic I blocked DNS:UDP port 53. If my understanding is correct this should have the desired affect, does this sound and look right to you guys??

I am also curious about the other rules in there as it wasn't me that added them and they look very open to me, what are your thoughts?
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