Chip Mefford wrote:

> One can connect to port 53 with telnet, so it
> isn't a firewall issue, (I think), perhaps
> it is something else.

Telnet uses TCP and I can query your server over TCP, but not UDP.
You need to allow access to port 53 over UDP as well as TCP.

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