Disable Root Hints
Florian Weimer
fw at deneb.enyo.de
Thu Oct 23 19:40:30 UTC 2008
* Eric Reischer:
> My question is, will it be sufficient to create a new root hints file
> that has [A-M].ROOT-SERVERS.NET all defined as 192.168.0.2 (my BIND9
> server's address), or will some other method be more prudent? Will this
> create a circular reference? My goal is to have the server return an
> NXDOMAIN rather than a SERVFAIL on a query to a host that isn't in the
> local table. The other thought I had was to create zone files for
> "com", "net", "edu", etc, and have them all empty.
You could disable recursion altogether and just serve your local zones
authoritatively.
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