bind: how to accept authoritative answers only?

Larry Sheldon lsheldon at creighton.edu
Sat Jan 27 17:41:21 UTC 2001


> I tried to figure out how to configure bind (on my TSL1.2)  to accept
> authoritative answers only, but I didn't succeed.
> This should help against IP-Spoofing as named would't accept answers of a
> hijacked cache that is used
> to spoof addresses. DJBDNS (Bernstein stuff) behaves that way, and I would
> have liked to configure bind to work that way.

I have no idea how to do what you are asking, but I am interested in the
assert that "authoratative" can not be spoofed.

How is that guaranteed?
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