supressing reverse DNS lookups

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Tue Feb 25 07:15:42 UTC 2003


Steinart Sturesson <steinart_2 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!

> Is there anyone who knows if there is a way to disable reverse DNS lookups 
> (IP addresses to host names) in BIND. I am running a BIND 9 caching only 
> name server and I want it to try to find the answers for name to IP address 
> lookups, but any reverse lookup attempt should be supressed (e.g. by always 
> returning information to the asking application that the mapping could not 
> be found). Is that possible?

> BR,
> Steinart

Yes, it's possible. The question is : "Will You really do this ? " and
"what effects will it have on other organizations"

After presenting an answer in these issues an answer on your question will
arrive.







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