Search Again: Re: QuickDNS Pro 2.2.x question From: David M. Dantowitz Date: Friday, March 7, 2003 Time: 10:00:11 pm Thanks. The fact that the original feature wasn't part of the intent makes me feel better about reading the docs and not "getting it" the first time around. Server seems to be restricting properly.. Thanks, David --- On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 01:30 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote: > I would guess so. I don't have the developer docs for this in front of > me, but you're attempting to use the forwarding feature for something > it wasn't intended to be used for. Therefore, it's bound to require > some fiddling. > > Note that your server is still going to be sending outgoing queries > for each recursive query it gets. This is going to take processor > time. It simply won't get a response to its queries, so it won't > respond to the recursive queries that it gets. > > Of course, this would be easier if you were using QuickDNS for Mac OS > X (or any other operating system besides classic Mac OS). This is > because the server software is different - QuickDNS Server for classic > Mac OS doesn't support recursion restrictions, but BIND and Microsoft > DNS do. > ____________________________________________________________________ > Chris Buxton Men & Mice > support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy > > At 8:29 AM -0500 2/22/03, David M. Dantowitz wrote: >> I just love replying to my own thread... >> >> Okay, query my server for apple.com and it nicely does a look up... >> do I need to enter a bogus IP address for at least one of the >> forwarders rather than 0.0.0.0? >> >> David >> >> >> On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 08:23 AM, David M. Dantowitz wrote: >> >>> Okay, found it in the manual... Forwarders... set the server as a >>> slave and have no forwarders should do it... >>> >>> Found nothing in "recursive queries" that's why I missed it on the >>> first read through of the manual. >>> >>> Thanks, > >

Messages In This Thread: QuickDNS Pro 2.2.x question by David M. Dantowitz on Feb 22, 2003 at 5:12:23 am Re: QuickDNS Pro 2.2.x question by David M. Dantowitz on Feb 22, 2003 at 5:25:10 am Re: QuickDNS Pro 2.2.x question by David M. Dantowitz on Feb 22, 2003 at 5:31:34 am Re: QuickDNS Pro 2.2.x question by Men & Mice Support on Feb 24, 2003 at 10:31:11 am Re: QuickDNS Pro 2.2.x question by David M. Dantowitz on Mar 7, 2003 at 10:00:11 pm