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[ale] Vonage redux



Mills, John M. wrote:
> I read the manual and still have a question regarding port forwarding:
> LinkSys's manual says forward port 53 (DNS) to the Vonage adapter. How can
> this work? Don't the other boxen on that router need to reach DNS? Why is
> there incoming DNS anyway???

You don't need to forward DNS to the ATA. I think they suggest that to 
make sure that DNS is available to the ATA. Only ports that need to 
forwarded from the outside of your network to the ATA is UDP 5060 and 5061.

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Jason Fritcher
jkf at wolfnet.org