stealth server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9hvd96$7ah at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Francois MARTIN <francois.martin at nordnet.fr> wrote:
>I heard about a functionnality of Bind 9 and I'd like to know more about it.
>
>Does anyone have informations about "stealth servers" cause it seems to be
>very interesting.

A "stealth server" is simply a slave server that's not listed in the NS
records.  It will be used by clients whose resolvers are pointed to the
server's address, but not by other machines on the Internet.  This is
commonly done if a site has their ISP hosting their DNS, an they want to
have a server on their LAN just for their own people to use so that they
don't have to go through their Internet connection to look up their own
hostnames.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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