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:

RE: Open DNS Server / Recursion

2006-10-26 Thread Russ
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 about, it must go and do a recursive lookup