Search Again: Re: Only allow certain clients to do lookups From: Scott Haneda Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Time: 12:23:35 am on 10/26/04 11:21 PM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com wrote: >> I tried to >> read about this in the manual, but it is somewhat vague as to what it really >> does. My guess is the entire world will at some time or another need to ask >> something of my DNS server, so this settings mere existence confuses me >> other than to block known abusers? > > Use this setting to permit authorized users to send recursive queries > to your server (meaning, permit authorized users to ask your server > to do work). Anyone else's query will have the "rd" flag (recursion > desired) ignored. Thanks, I think I am starting to get this. The instructions say I can enter in a range of Ip's, which would be nice since I don't want to enter in 64 IP addresses, how do you define a range? I am assuming it is the "/" notation, for which I never really understood how that works at all. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Fax: 313.557.5052 <scott@newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A.

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