Search Again: Re: Only allow certain clients to do lookups From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 Time: 9:44:46 pm At 9:31 PM -0700 10/26/04, Scott Haneda wrote: >on 10/26/04 9:21 PM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com wrote: > >> You can enter a range, in subnet notation, or you can enter a single >> IP. Open the server's Options window and click on "Query >> restrictions", then modify the list (which currently says "allow >> any"). > >Does allow localnets mean anything within my subnet range? I had it set to >just localhost which you would assume would certianly block me out here in >comcast land, I was still able to get a answer from the server via dig, how >can I prove to myself that this is working? Look at the "flags" section of the response to a dig command. If "ra" (recursion available) is present, then it's not working. In general, I have found the "localhost" and "localnets" values to be unreliable. Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy Customer Service and Sales Engineer

Messages In This Thread: Only allow certain clients to do lookups by Scott Haneda on Oct 26, 2004 at 8:44:53 pm Re: Only allow certain clients to do lookups by Men & Mice Support on Oct 26, 2004 at 9:22:53 pm Re: Only allow certain clients to do lookups by Scott Haneda on Oct 26, 2004 at 9:32:15 pm Re: Only allow certain clients to do lookups by Men & Mice Support on Oct 26, 2004 at 9:44:46 pm Re: Only allow certain clients to do lookups by Scott Haneda on Oct 26, 2004 at 10:17:54 pm Re: Only allow certain clients to do lookups by mattb on Oct 26, 2004 at 10:33:13 pm Re: Only allow certain clients to do lookups by Men & Mice Support on Oct 26, 2004 at 11:22:54 pm Re: Only allow certain clients to do lookups by Scott Haneda on Oct 27, 2004 at 12:23:35 am Re: Only allow certain clients to do lookups by Men & Mice Support on Oct 27, 2004 at 11:46:40 am