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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:12:21 +1200
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan.langille@dvl-software.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>
Subject:   Re: named timeouts
Message-ID:  <199906161112.GAA26982@metis.host4u.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpzp20csx1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  "Dan Langille"'s message of "Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:00:18 %2B1200"

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On 16 Jun 99, at 12:59, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> writes:
> > There messages aren't from ipfilter.  I believe they are from my 
> > kernel.log.  I apologise for not pointing that out in the first place:
> > 
> > $ tail kernel.log 
> > Jun 16 09:16:42 ns /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:1391
> > from 127.0.0.1:53 Jun 16 09:17:02 ns /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
> > 127.0.0.1:1393 from 127.0.0.1:53
> 
> Ah, these are log_in_vain messages. What they mean is that named isn't
> listening on 127.0.0.1. You need to add localhost or localnets to the
> allow-query clause in named.conf (either in the options section or in each
> zone).

This is sounding better.  I just checked named.conf.  At present, I don't 
have any allow-query statements.  According to p250 of DNS and BIND, 
I could just add the following:

options {
               allow-query {  127.0.0.1/32; }
}

But would that prevent everyone else from getting in?
--
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