Why would I want to allow Bind to allow recursive queries in my situation?

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Dec 14 21:31:00 UTC 2005


Tony Toews wrote:

>Folks
>
>I'm running Bind 9.3.1 to provide DNS services for a few very low traffic domains
>hosted on the same webserver.  10 K page views per day at the most.
>
>I can't think of any reason why I'd want to allow recursive queries.   And, if I do,
>this could be a DofS source, correct?
>
If you're just hosting domains, sure.

But, presumably you have clients that need DNS resolution. How do they 
get that? On a different nameserver or set of nameservers? Those ones 
would need to allow recursion.

- Kevin




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