Disable recursive name resolution

By admin on September 3, 2005 in Misc

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

recursion no;

1	recursion no;

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:

allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1/24; };

1	allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1/24; };

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