This is why people run separate views, separate instances, or separate devices for DNS resolution (= recursive, by necessity) versus DNS hosting (= non-recursive, best practice). If you run both hosting and resolution on the same nameserver instance but different views, you may need to be a little careful about how you resolve names in your own zones (don't recurse to the same view otherwise you may end up in an infinite loop situation!), and especially if you're publishing a NAT'ed address for your nameserver(s).

Within named.conf, you can limit recursive resolution by client address or by view. You can't limit it by zone, because, on deeper analysis, that actually doesn't make any sense anyway -- either you are authoritative for a given zone, in which case no recursion is necessary, or you're not authoritative, in which case recursive resolution is *always* necessary.

- Kevin

On 5/20/2011 2:16 AM, Tory M Blue wrote:
So I'm been having dns issues for a while, differing issues that pop
up and I knock them down , but another just came to my attention which
has me stumped.

My external zone config has allow-recursion ( none; );

However I have some 3rd party sites that I CNAME too. Akamai for
example, yes CNAME to CNAME , i know I know :)..

Well my primary NS servers will only provide the CNAME record:

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;cdn.domain.net.                IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
cdn.domain.net. 300     IN      CNAME   cdn.domain.net.edgesuite.net.

This causes all types of failures if just using dig, or Linux built in
lookup mechanism, or heck Perl or PHP methods as well. None of the
stated methods, know that they should now query
cdn.domain.net.edgesuite.net, so they provide the CNAME and SERVFAIL
or whatever.

Is there a way to allow any host to actually do a recursive lookup if
the request starts out on my domain,  in order to receive the A
record? Or do I just have to enable recursion on my external zone? The
problem there obviously, is now joe and frank can use my dns servers
because it performs a bit better than their ISP's. I don't want that,
but I do want to provide the extended information for that CNAME
record.


Oh ya still on "bind-9.7.2-P3" , fedora based system

I'm missing something, but since it's gosh knows who that will be
querying for cdn.domain.net there really is no ACL I can use, it has
to be all. And based on some failures, I have to do the leg work for
each client, i have to provide them the necessary information in that
one request.

Thanks again
Tory
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