On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:50:43AM +0000, Warwick Brown wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2003 8:52 am, Tomās Núņez Lirola wrote: > > Hi > > I've heard about disable zone transferring in BIND. I thought it is a good > > idea, in order to hide a little more your net (obviously you can query my > > DNS for all possible names and get the same information), but also I > > thought that if BIND transfer zones by default, it has some reason. > > > > So can anyone comment inconvenients/advantages of disabling transfer DNS > > zones?
<SNIP> > disadvantages: > > cannot transfer the zone to another system when backing up zone files using > dig or nslookup You can of course just allow a handful of servers to do transfers, i.e. off-site DNS backup etc. -simonm (E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: +44 28 9072 5060 M: +44 7710 836915) One By One The Penguins Steal My Sanity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
