RE: [cobalt-users] lame server

[Rodolfo Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Or they stopped buying a service from you but still point to your
> servers.  It turns out that about 300 domains are pointed to
> our servers that we are no longer under contract for.
>
> The way I'm going to solve the problem (as soon as I make sure none of
> our own systems point to the servers in question for recursive DNS
> service), is to turn off recursive DNS on our servers, so anything
> pointing to our servers that we do NOT host will get a "no such
> domain" error <smile>.  Good way to get back at 'em <smile, again>.

On my to-do list for "soon" is something that O'Reilly "DNS and BIND"
mentioned, and I loved:

Run *two* BIND daemons: one with recursive queries turned on, for your
inside users only, and one without recursive queries, which everyone
outside sees. Problem solved.

Since I have only about 10 inside users, though, I may just go for the
less elegant but simpler route: my inside users will have to use my
upstream's DNS servers <grin>.

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>