Unapproved recursive queries

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "John" == John Horne <J.Horne at plymouth.ac.uk> writes:

    John> 29-Sep-2000 05:07:39.055 security: notice: unapproved recursive query from [198.83.19.247].53 for area51.termisoc.org 

    John> 29-Sep-2000 07:25:10.385 security: notice: unapproved recursive query from [163.121.199.3].53 for www.termisoc.org

    John> What I cannot understand is why. We don't allow recursive
    John> queries through our servers for non-local users, but the
    John> 'termisoc.org' domain lists its own name servers, and our
    John> master (dns0.plymouth.ac.uk) as authoritative. So why are
    John> requests going to the slave server?

Ask the operators of the name servers that appear to be running at the
above IP addresses. Perhaps their servers are misconfigured and forward
queries to your server, either by accident or by design.