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From: "Peter Marshall" <peter.marshall@caris.com>
Subject: Re: dns question
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:50:50 -0400
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To: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
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No .. but I do have the following at the end of my named.conf file .... the
db.cache file has all of the root servers.   I just was not sure if it would
cause problems just removing that section as it was in all of the examples I
read.

zone "." {
       type hint;
       file "/etc/named/db.cache";
       };


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Opperisano" <opie@817west.com>
To: "Peter Marshall" <peter.marshall@caris.com>
Cc: "netfilter" <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: dns question


On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 07:32, Peter Marshall wrote:
> I am sure this is a stupid question ...but I will ask anyway.  Should I be
> allowing my dns server (in my dmz) connect to root servers ?   At the
moment
> it is being bloced, and the only thing it can connect to is my ISP's DNS
> server.  Basically, my dns server serves requests for servers in my dmz
for
> my internal users.  If it can't find the hit, it passs the request on to
my
> ISP's ... I am trying to clean up my firewall logs, and noticed that the
DNS
> server is always trying to query root servers.  I was just not sure if
this
> should be allowed.  If it is not, (and I suspect there is no need to) Is
> there a way to make my DNS server stop quering the root servers ?
>
> PS  DNS is a rh9 box running bind.

if your bind configuration specifies:

        forwarders {
                x.x.x.x;
                x.x.x.x;
                // 24.25.4.107;
                // 24.25.4.108;
                4.2.2.2;
                4.2.2.1;
                4.2.2.3;
        };
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