AW: local DNS

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Sep 6 14:38:31 UTC 2004


In article <chgu7d$2c0o$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Walkenhorst, Benjamin" <Benjamin.Walkenhorst at telekom.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there any way to change this behavior without
> modifying the source?=20
> I mean, you can just turn off recursive queries, but does that leave =
> any
> chance for, say, a cache-poisoning attack?

If you turn off recursion and fetch-glue, I don't think the nameserver 
should ever have a reason to send an outbound query.

You could also block outbound port 53 on your router or firewall.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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