Unapproved recursive queries

[John Horne]

On 29-Sep-00 at 10:00:13 Jim Reid wrote:
>>John Horne <J.Horne at plymouth.ac.uk> writes:
>  29-Sep-2000 05:07:39.055 security: notice: unapproved recursive
>  query from [198.83.19.247].53 for area51.termisoc.org 
> 
>  29-Sep-2000 07:25:10.385 security: notice: unapproved recursive
>  query from [163.121.199.3].53 for www.termisoc.org
> 
>> What I cannot understand is why. We don't allow recursive
>> queries through our servers for non-local users, but the
>> 'termisoc.org' domain lists its own name servers, and our
>> master (dns0.plymouth.ac.uk) as authoritative. So why are
>> 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.
> 
Well I could, but they are coming from all over the place - the above were
just 2 examples.

John.

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