>I have to disagree with you - I know your concerns about recursion from >previous >discussions, but I have never found a problem with this, and never had a >problem >with Win2K DNS for Internet services.
I'm just warning people, esp on this kind of list, who probably trust MS to get everything perfect. While you many have not been DoS'd, I think most people don't like ANY of their expensive resources being stolen, even if the theft doesn't reach DoS levels or if the intent of the abuser is just stealing services rather than malicious DoS'ing. e.g., I helped a web hosting guy move from unrestricted MS DNS to restricted BIND8, at which point he realized he MS DNS had been used by 1000's of people for free for who knows how long, and he had been paying the bandwidth. After he restricted recursion with BIND, the parasitic queries kept pouring in for many days (bind was loging "denied recursion from ip.ad.re.ss") and eventually died out as the parasites realized their host had slammed the door. btw, not only is BIND free, but you don't need W2K Server license, as W2K pro works fine. BIND's management GUI is also free, it's called Notepad.exe. :)) Len ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
