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At 11:26 AM -0400 2005-05-12, [email protected] wrote: The original question from Joe Shen said that a remote computer was asking questions about certain servers, but did not specify whether or not the "remote computer" in question was a customer. Gadi's response was to refuse to answer requests for domains that you don't own, which didn't address the issue of whether or not the "remote computer" was a customer, or what kind of server that Joe was running.It's often suggested that you have *two* DNS setups - one that only answers requests from inside for recursion and caching, and an authoritative one that faces out and refuses to recurse. Your answer is the complete and correct one, at least for the technical issue of how you should br running your nameservers so that you avoid external abuse and reduce the probability of having your DNS servers compromised. It's taken us a while to get to this correct and complete answer, however. -- Brad Knowles, <[email protected]> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.
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