Zone Transfer Q

[Richard Stevenson]

On 7 Jul 1999, Sami Yousif wrote:

> Jim Reid wrote:

[snip]

> > Personally, I don't see the point of restricting
> > zone transfers. It doesn't make things "more secure" and needlessly
> > complicates your DNS administration.

[Good reasons snipped]

In addition, some parts of the world pay by volume for IP traffic.  Until I
disabled zone transfers here, it cost me a dollar every time some idiot
would-be-spammer in the UK or the States did an AXFR of co.nz. from my
nameserver - something that happened far more often that I liked.

Cheers

Richard

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Richard Stevenson
Systems Engineer
Information Technology Services
Victoria University of Wellington
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