Preventing recursion ... (preventing confusion?)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <g6q7bj$1tu0$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> On my RHEL5 box the way I insured neither cache lookups nor recursive
> lookups would work for outsiders was modify named conf to have:
> 
> 1)  options section:
>         allow-query { internaldns; externaldns; };
>         allow-recursion { internaldns; externaldns; };

Of course, if you're restricting allow-query, you don't need to specify 
allow-recursion.  Allow-recursion is only needed when it's more 
restrictive than allow-query.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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