Cannot get "allow-query-on" to work.

Bob McDonald bmcdonaldjr at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 17:06:36 UTC 2014


Did you specify 127.0.0.1 in the "listen-on" options statement?

> I am using Ubuntu 12.04.4, BIND 9.8.1-P1, and just added:

> allow-query-on { 127.0.0.1; };

> To the default /etc/bind/named.conf.options file.
> That should make it only answer queries sent to 127.0.0.1, and not answer
> queries sent to the server's normal IP.  But it seems to have no effect.

> I have tried putting the computer's real IP in there instead - same
results
> - both IP's answer queries.

> I have tried the similar "allow-recursion-on" option and that works as
> documented.

> Any clue how to get "allow-query-on" to work?
> Searching the mail archives and Google did not find anything - but it is
> hard to filter on just "allow-query-on" as a complete string.
> Has anyone even used that option?

> --
> Bob Harold
> DNS hostmaster
> University of Michigan

Regards,

Bob
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