Stealth Slave used in forwarders list.. workable or not ??

[Cricket Liu]

Theo C wrote:
> I'm setting up our external DNS servers not to allow recursion..
> (either from internal or external machines.) I'm also setting up
> Stealth Secondaries that will allow recursion from internal machines.
> Our internal servers will be authoritative for internal domains and
> forward all Internet queries to the external stealth secondaries.
> 
> Q:Will this work? (I know that a stealth secondary usually only serves
> resolvers, but does it differentiate between a resolver request and a
> Name server request?

No, it has no way of doing that.  They just look like recursive queries.

cricket

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