Dont block DNS requests at the firewall. Your customers wont be happy when their sites dont resolve :)
We have recursion turned off on our DotCom DNS because we only host 6 Domains. All our coporate users use a Recursing DNS server to do their surfing. So if it is for both Surfing and Hosting then you need recursive lookups. If the server will only answer requests for your domains then turn off recursive lookups to save some traffic. In either case dont block port 53 at the firewall or by bye websites :) Eric Haskins Web Systems Developer Rooms To Go On 10/26/06, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 26 October 2006 13:43, Jenny Gavin-Wear wrote: > > I have a problem in that when I disable Recursive look ups the DNS > servers > > then fail to answer DNS queries from the local IP addresses. > > Any ideas anyone please? > > Don't turn recursive lookups off :-) > They are what makes your DNS server go off and ask other ones, so when you > turn if off *bam* no resolved hosts apart whatever the server itself knows > about. > A more normal solution is to block incoming DNS requests at the firewall. > > -- > Tom Chiverton > Helping to competently architect web-enabled initiatives > > **************************************************** > > This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. > > Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England > and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address > is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is > available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a > partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. > Regulated by the Law Society. > > CONFIDENTIALITY > > This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and > may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you > must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it > nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its > existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please > delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. > > For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258147 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
