After about an hour of tampering around with my port forwarding system and constantly checking if the correct ports were open (and having done so in the past), I've come to the conclusion that I cannot forward port 53 for some reason. I have tried doing it both in advanced and application forwarding (port 80 works through application) to no avail.
My router is the Qwest Motorola-3347, if anyone has any insight, information, or methods to hopefully forward port 53 I'm listening with my eyes open (since we can't really hear things we're reading right?). I've also attempted running ShinyGTS and the DNS works fine but when I launch the GTS it tells me that a socket doesn't have permission (assuming it's port 53, since it's not recognized anywhere else). If any other information is needed I will post it immediately. Thanks!