Cisco ASA not allowing DNS traffic to pass

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I have an ASA 5515 as my internet firewall. It is not allowing me to do NS Lookups from any internal DNS Servers, or clients. If I set my nslookup server to 8.8.8.8 (google DNS), I can resolve public DNS names. If I am on the internal network, breaks.

I have the following in my ASA: 

policy-map type inspect dns preset_dns_map
 parameters
  message-length maximum client auto
  message-length maximum 8192
policy-map global_policy
 class inspection_default
  inspect ftp 
  inspect h323 h225 
  inspect h323 ras 
  inspect ip-options 
  inspect netbios 
  inspect rsh 
  inspect rtsp 
  inspect skinny  
  inspect esmtp 
  inspect sqlnet 
  inspect sunrpc 
  inspect tftp 
  inspect sip  
  inspect xdmcp 
  inspect pptp 
  inspect ipsec-pass-thru 
  inspect icmp 
  inspect dns preset_dns_map

Any ideas as to why its not working?

Best Answer

As per the mentioned notes when you are sending a DNS query internally is it going through the firewall or not. If it is run a packet for the concerned traffic and see if the traffic is getting dropped at any stage. If due to any reason ASA is dropping the traffic collect the output of ASP capture. ASP capture will help us to isolate the reason due to which ASA is dropping the packet.

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