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

RE: Open DNS Server / Recursion

2006-10-27 Thread Jenny Gavin-Wear
To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Open DNS Server / Recursion Easy... don't disable recursive lookups. Without recursive lookups, your DNS server will only respond to queries about things that it knows... i.e. the dns entries hosted on your server. In order for it to resolve domains that it knows nothing

Re: Open DNS Server / Recursion

2006-10-27 Thread Eric Haskins
to look up non-local domains. So, I need to be able to restrict the facility of recursive lookups to the local IPs. I can't see any way to do that. -Original Message- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 October 2006 19:17 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Open DNS Server / Recursion

RE: Open DNS Server / Recursion

2006-10-27 Thread Dennis Powers
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. In BIND you can set the bind.conf file to only allow certain IP address to be able to initiate a recursive query. The directive is in the options section:

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

RE: Open DNS Server / Recursion

2006-10-26 Thread Russ
using other dns servers. Russ -Original Message- From: Jenny Gavin-Wear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:44 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Open DNS Server / Recursion Totally off topic. I run DNS servers for a number of domains and also mail servers