Stopping recursive queries from others

Michael Kjorling michael at kjorling.com
Mon May 13 22:28:44 UTC 2002


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On May 13 2002 22:37 +0200, Ewald Peters wrote:

> > >Could anybody please tell me how i can stop recursive queries from
> > >others?
> > >My server runs a bind 4
>
> Thanx and how can i control this in bind 8?

By using allow-recursion{}. It's under options{}, like so:

	options {
		allow-recursion { localhost; };
	};


Michael Kjörling

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