Stupid upgrading question

Re: Stupid upgrading question

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At 7:57 PM -0400 5/18/04, Chris Freemesser wrote:
>>- Recursive query restrictions. QuickDNS Pro Server 2.2.4 doesn't
>>allow you to restrict access to recursion, meaning someone else could
>>configure their DNS server to forward all queries to your server,
>>thus hijacking your DNS server. A more recent version of QuickDNS,
>>managing a BIND-based DNS server, would be able to restrict such
>>access to just your network, for example.
>
>Thanks for the reply. Hmmm, I'm wondering if this is what I'm
>seeing with my DNS server these days.....seems like an awful lot of
>traffic is going through it. Am I correct in assuming that
>recursion can be blocked with the new version so that only simple
>queries are answered?

Define "simple". You can restrict recursion, so that unauthorized
hosts won't be able to use your server for general DNS lookups, but
everyone will still be able to request your records from your server.

>Our DNS server is used not only on our network, but also by many of
>our users at home, so I can't restrict DNS to just our network.

That poses a problem. You may want to find a VPN solution, or have
your home users use their ISP's DNS servers instead.

>I'll look into upgrading the server to OSX and getting a newer
>version of QDNS. Is it possible to simply transfer the data files
>from my old version to the new server, or will I have recreate
>everything in the OSX version?

Copy and paste blocks of records from the old QuickDNS Pro Admin into
the new QuickDNS Manager. Other than that, unless you want to write
some AppleScript, or unless you have a copy of QuickDNS 3.x for
classic Mac OS available, you'll have to recreate your zones.
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