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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet@yahoo.ca>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 with BIND 9.4 issue
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On Feb 29, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> I need to make named do nslookup for any host from outside my  
> network, but I faild to make it work as in older versions of BIND.
>
> [17:20](arabian2005@ns2)[~]> nslookup www.google.com ns3.wearab.net
> Server:  NS3.WeArab.Net
> Address:  66.90.105.114

Add:

   allow-recursion { any; };

...to the options section of named.conf.  Note that this greatly  
increases the risk of people misusing the server via cache spoofing  
attacks; you are much better off specifying a more limited set of  
networks which are permitted to make recursive queries.

-- 
-Chuck