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pkats
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open recursive DNS port 53

Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:45 pm

I have customers routers that have "open recursive DNS port 53" and my upstream provider is telling me I need to get that blocked. Rather than chase down each customer I would like to block this at my core router. I have a firewall rule setup but it does not appear to be working. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

add action=drop chain=forward comment="" disabled=no dst-port=53 protocol=udp \
src-address=0.0.0.0/0 src-port=53
 
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Re: open recursive DNS port 53

Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:02 pm

probably it is not working because UDP can use both TCP and UDP.

You can redirect all DNS requests to your router which is better solution
/ip firewall nat
add action=redirect chain=dstnat comment=dns dst-port=53 protocol=tcp to-ports=53
add action=redirect chain=dstnat dst-port=53 protocol=udp to-ports=53
 
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Re: open recursive DNS port 53

Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:20 pm

He means "DNS can use both TCP and UDP."

And take off src-port=53. DNS clients / servers use random outgoing source ports, so you'll probably probably never match that rule.
 
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Re: open recursive DNS port 53

Fri Dec 27, 2013 5:20 pm

probably it is not working because UDP can use both TCP and UDP.

You can redirect all DNS requests to your router which is better solution
/ip firewall nat
add action=redirect chain=dstnat comment=dns dst-port=53 protocol=tcp to-ports=53
add action=redirect chain=dstnat dst-port=53 protocol=udp to-ports=53
I am having the same issue as pkats and I have implemented the script you suggested. But is there a way I can narrow it down to a single computer on my network? I have been going to each one I can get to doing deep antivirus scans but I was just curious if it was possible. Thank You
 
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Re: open recursive DNS port 53

Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:31 am

remove src-port=53, everything else is correct, and set the same rule in input chain on public interface if you use your Mikrotik router as dns proxy too.