Bind open to query from anyone

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue Jan 6 13:17:46 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:15:36AM -0800,
 Chris Henderson <henders254 at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 12 lines which said:

> That is, any one can use my name server to query any host name,
> eg. www.google.com, www.yahoo.com etc. Is this a bad idea?

Yes, very bad. See RFC 5358 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5358.txt>



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