Private DNS

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:54:22AM +0000, Mark Goldie wrote:
> Apologies if this question has been asked before, I have named 8.2.2-P5 and
> what I want to do is run a private DNS server which still forwards out to
> the main one. 
> 
> I have that situation at the moment except it tries to contact root servers
> (which I see in the firewall logs)
> How can I avoid it trying to propagate itself?

(1) Get 8.2.2-P7 - although I think the fix for this was in 8.2.2-P5,
you should still get the added security in the later version.

(2) Use "forward only".

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