Dmz dns query on asa 5540

Hi Expert.
How I can allow dmz zone server to resolve only dns query through nslookup on ASA 5540 ?
What is the configuration required on ASA 5540 ?
Thanks

Hi Samir,
By IP address will be very simple, depending on the security level that it has (higher than 0 for DMZ and 0 for the outside) it will be allowed by default.
If there is an access-list alreay applied denying all the http traffic what you need to do is simply allowed that specific host on the ACL and then deny the rest.
Access-list DMZ permit tcp host host eq 80
Access-list DMZ deny ip any any
access-group DMZ in interface DMZ
Then you can add a host entry on the hostfile for the server on the DMZ to translate the IP address to a hostname and you will be able to access it using the web browser (not really scalable, but it works)
WARNING: This will only allow traffic from the DMZ server going to specific host on the internet on port 80, any other traffic going to any other interface will be dropped.
Mike

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