Disable recursive name resolution

For public DNS servers it is often desirable to disable recursive name resolution. This can be accomplished by adding:

to the “options” section of the /etc/named.conf file.

Alternately you might want to only allow recursion for a limited range of addresses. This can be accomplished by instead adding a line like this:

to the “options” section of the /etc/named.conf file.

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