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Date:      Mon, 24 May 1999 12:41:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
Cc:        Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Command: host -l domain.com
Message-ID:  <19990524194109.27781.rocketmail@web125.yahoomail.com>

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Right, some people like to waste bandwidth, and
others use it to launch denial of services
attacks some how. I personally like to limit
anything that can be used against me or my ISP
in any way at all.

Holt

--- Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Holtor wrote:
> > 
> > > But when i do host -l mydomain.com
> > > it lists everything...
> > > Is this something in named i can edit to not
> list?
> > 
> > Security through obscurity is a really bad idea.
> What is so precious about
> > your DNS records that you can't share.
> > 
> 
> It's more of a bandwidth-limiting thing.  Zone
> transfers are fairly
> taxing, especially if you have large zones.  
> 
> Doug White                               
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD:
> The Power to Serve
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    |
> www.freebsd.org
> 
> 

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