I'm using 9.3.4-P1 (backported for the exploit) on RHEL5 so had to do it
this way.   For later BIND versions you're correct based on the reading
I did at the time.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Barry Margolin
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Preventing recursion ... (preventing confusion?)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 "Jeff Lightner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On my RHEL5 box the way I insured neither cache lookups nor recursive
> lookups would work for outsiders was modify named conf to have:
> 
> 1)  options section:
>         allow-query { internaldns; externaldns; };
>         allow-recursion { internaldns; externaldns; };

Of course, if you're restricting allow-query, you don't need to specify 
allow-recursion.  Allow-recursion is only needed when it's more 
restrictive than allow-query.

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Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arlington, MA
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