Stopping name server abuse

[Paul Kosinski]

Is it possible to get BIND not to respond at all, thereby causing
a timeout on the query? That would perhaps reduce load more than
NXDOMAIN or deleting the sone(s) would.


On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:03:09 +0200
jonny at hasig.de wrote:

> yes, but it minimizes the use of resources because the only answer is
> nxdomain. j.
> 
> Am 24.06.2018 um 23:41 schrieb Barry Margolin:
> > In article <mailman.70.1529876093.803.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
> >   jonny at hasig.de wrote:
> > 
> >> hi,
> >> why dont you just delete the zones?
> > 
> > That won't stop the queries from coming to the server.