RE: [cobalt-users] bind and recursion

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Paul Alcock wrote:

> >
> > To fix bind for yur nameservers using allow-recursion be careful not to
> > use
> > allow-recursion no
> > or
> > allow-recursion { none; };
> > use
> > allow-recursion { ip.ad.re.ss1; ip.ad.re.ss2 };
> >
> > Sendmail and DNS are two services that need to use recursive lookups.
> > So the ipaddress of the server at least should be allowed recursion
> >
> > Gerald
> On the ball Gerald, my RAQ2 quickly got lost after changing
> the options in etc/named.conf to...
> options {
> 	directory "/etc/named";
> 	recursion no;
> };
>
> luckily I had a backup of the
> named.conf file and ssh access, so I was able to revert it. Phew.
>
> so is the correct method edit to the /etc/named.conf file...
> options {
> 	directory "/etc/named";
> 	recursion "myserveripd";
> };


 options {
       directory "/etc/named";
       recursion { ip.ad.re.ss1; ip.ad.re.ss2' };
 };

Put your slave in there also!

Gerald
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