Airport Extreme, logging and security

Hi all,
bought yesterday a Airport Extreme Base station, which I share with my preeeecious (MacBook) and some ugly PCs.
As I'm a bit paranoid, once everything was setup (1.5 min at most, thanks Apple), I tried to do an "Internet Scan" and noticed port 53 was left open on the router... My previous router was completely stealth and prefered that. Is it normal?
Second thing, while with my previous router I could see "intruder attacks" logs, the AE seems to show only "internal activity" in the logs.
As I have the activity led always blinking (set the config to have the led to blink on activity) and I checked to see if it was internal or WAN activity, would be really curious to see logs of what is happening between my router and the Internet.
Anybody knows?
Thanks,
Ka.

Thanks for your reply.
Maybe they "have" to leave Port 53 open, on the other hand prefered to have it Stealthed like my previous router was doing. Unfortunately, after three years of service, decided to take a rest and so thought about buying the AE, which, till now works pretty well.
My only concerns are:
why decide to leave ports as closed instead of Stealth?
Closed, you're saying "I'm here but I don't talk to you", stealthed you don't reply at all, as if you weren't there. Safer I would say.
Second concern, although probably nothing serious, is the activity light. As I already said, I have a cable modem and maybe it's normal for the WAN light (and therefore the front led) to blink without a rest but it's a bit annoying when you know there is no local activity.
I liked the idea of seeing it blinking when there was really something happening on my LAN... Well, in case it's normal that router and modem talk continously, without a second of interruption, I'll deal with it.
BTW, contacted support and they told me that the router is also accessible for config via Web... Like other routers.
Never managed to get to the config page... Is it me or also you?
Thanks again,
Ka.

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