Fixed it - it was indeed the firewall rule but I recalled that the rules are taken in order and when I added the rules they got appended thusly:
Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 255
ACCEPT esp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT ah -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 224.0.0.251 udp dpt:5353
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:631
ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:80
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:443
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:22
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:25
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:139
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:445
REJECT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp spt:53
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:53
So I edited /etc/sysconfig/iptables and put the accept targets for udp before the 'REJECT all' line:
Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 255
ACCEPT esp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT ah -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 224.0.0.251 udp dpt:5353
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:631
ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:80
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:443
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:22
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:25
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:139
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:445
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp spt:53
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:53
REJECT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
Restarted iptables, and it worked!
Thanks for the help dim!
jch