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From: Robin Lunn <robin@is.co.za>
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Subject: Re: stop "ls -d" in nslookup
To: jrclark@netview.net (John Clark)
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 10:10:34 +0200 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960708152638.0094b20c@netview.net> from "John Clark" at Jul 7, 96 03:27:23 pm
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John Clark wrote:
> Having looked at many different name servers (with nslookup), I see that
> some do not allow you to list their entire domain (ie. ls -d
> x.x.x.in-addr.arpa), although they seem to function properly, and give the
> scant information that a "set q=any" host query generates.  My question is
> how do I do this too?  I don't particularly want to leave my arpa table open
> for listing, but I do need arpa resolution.  Does anyone know the "trick" to
> stop my name server from being such a whore?  ;^)

Using bind 4.9.3 have a look at the bootfile option "xfernets".  To be
really secure, say that only the secondaries for your zones can do zone
transfers.

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