Search Again: Re: Zone Transfers From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 Time: 2:05:25 pm On 04/15/03 at 15:41, Jessica Landmann opined: > Hi all, > > New to the list and have a few questions to ask. I am running Quick > DNS 2.2.1 and have been for a few years now. Everything works great. > > We recieved a request from one of our clients to restrict zone > transfers to their mail server that is housed on a separate network, > at their location. Why does their mail server need to get zone transfers from you? Does the same machine have a name server that provides slave (secondary) service for your zones? And why would they care if you allow anyone else to get zone transfers from your name server? > Can we restrict zone transfers to just them? In the Admin app, Domain->Server Preferences, 'Security' tab. You can restrict zone transfers to hosts specified by IP address. > We are concerned about making this change, since we have 5 web > servers here that we don't want anything to go wrong with. The last > thing we would like is to have something go wrong internally because > of the switch. Thanks in advance. It's generally a good idea to restrict zone transfers to only hosts that are slaves (secondaries) of your master (primary) server and, possibly, any machines on your LAN from which you might administer the master or troubleshoot DNS problems. Any slaves, though, do need to be able to get zone transfers. Restricting zone transfers should not affect your web servers, as a web server should have no reason to request zone transfers. -- Christopher Bort | cbort@globalhomes.com Webmaster, Global Homes | webmaster@globalhomes.com <http://www.globalhomes.com/>

Messages In This Thread: Zone Transfers by Jessica Landmann on Apr 15, 2003 at 1:43:14 pm Re: Zone Transfers by Global Homes Webmaster on Apr 15, 2003 at 2:05:25 pm Re: Zone Transfers by Men & Mice Support on Apr 15, 2003 at 2:11:24 pm Re: Zone Transfers by Jessica Landmann on Apr 16, 2003 at 8:04:09 am