Preventing external lookups

[Barry Margolin]

In article <borbpm$1esj$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Mark  <admin at asarian-host.net> wrote:
>Running BIND 8.4.1, I loaded a large master zone from a DNS blocklist. The
>result? Matches are found very fast, of course. But when BIND cannot find a
>match, it still seems to query the root-servers, which can take quite a
>while to return a negative response.
>
>So, my question is, can I prevent any external lookups for one specific
>zone? External meaning: anything not defined in the zone file itself.

If your server is master for the zone, it should never recurse for anything
in that zone.  Something else must be going on.

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