Re: OT: Open DNS Server / Recursion

2006-10-30 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 26 October 2006 19:14, Eric Haskins wrote: Dont block DNS requests at the firewall. Your customers wont be happy when their sites dont resolve :) 90% of the time it's cheaper and easier to have someone else run the DNS. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to autoschediastically architect

OT: Open DNS Server / Recursion

2006-10-26 Thread Jenny Gavin-Wear
Totally off topic. I run DNS servers for a number of domains and also mail servers for those domains. 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? Jenny Jennifer Gavin-Wear Fast

Re: OT: Open DNS Server / Recursion

2006-10-26 Thread Tom Chiverton
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

Re: OT: Open DNS Server / Recursion

2006-10-26 Thread Eric Haskins
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