named.conf 'allow' options breaking dns {Scanned}

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Dec 31 23:22:17 UTC 2003


In article <bsv0e3$15ig$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "SW" <wppiphoto at wppi.com> 
wrote:

> Man, you have saved me! :-)  I think now it works. As you recommended, I was
> missing the end brace in the zone definiations. But I'm still not sure if I
> can have the global options directive to only allow-query local network and
> then all-query any under each zone definiation? Does the options directive
> supercedes the zone definiation. I want to allow outside world to get access
> to this dns server domain info so I'm not sure what I need to do or if
> everything is now fixed.

Yes, options in the zone definition take precedence over the global 
options in the "options" section.  So you can allow anyone to query the 
zones you're hosting, while using the global allow-query option to 
restrict who can use it as a caching server.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA


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