The following reply was made to PR conf/177607; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Maxim Konovalov <[email protected]>
To: Mark Knight <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: conf/177607: named.conf comment to slave root suggests potentially
 dangerous BIND configuration
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:03:04 +0400 (MSK)

 Hello,
 
 [...]
 > >Description:
 >
 >      The comment in the default named.conf encourages users to slave the 
 > root but does not provide
 >      an example configuration that prevent a name server being used as an 
 > amplifier in DDOS attacks.
 >      Users who adopt this configuration by uncommenting the supplied entries 
 > are likely to receive
 >      abuse reports or be unwitting participants in a DDOS attack.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >      Uncomment zone "." entry and then run dig -t ns @x.x.x.x . from the 
 > Internet.
 
 With the "listen-on { 127.0.0.1; };" at the line 22 it won't hurt
 anybody.  If you are going to change this setting than you have more
 work to secure your named server.
 
 -- 
 Maxim Konovalov
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