Re: Allow recursion for esternal resources in a authoritative zone on a not open dns server

2013-11-19 Thread Carsten Strotmann
Hello Stefano, the standard query path for DNS is client - caching DNS - authoritative DNS Your BIND Server is probably on the very right of that picture, the authoritative (only) server. Such an authoritative only server only answers with data it is authoritative for (like you described). In

Re: Allow recursion for esternal resources in a authoritative zone on a not open dns server

2013-11-19 Thread Tony Finch
Barry Margolin bar...@alum.mit.edu wrote: If the server is authoritative for both the CNAME and the target of the CNAME, no recursion should be necessary -- the target is already in its memory. Doesn't the server normally fill in the whole CNAME chain in this case? Yes - see the

Allow recursion for esternal resources in a authoritative zone on a not open dns server

2013-11-18 Thread Chiesa Stefano
Hello all. I have a closed bind dns server. It answers only to queries related to zones it is authoritative for (a normal behaviour... right?). I have dns zones that contain cname that points to hostnames in domains not managed by that server. So it won't resolve that names returning the cname to

Re: Allow recursion for esternal resources in a authoritative zone on a not open dns server

2013-11-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 18.11.13 13:57, Chiesa Stefano wrote: I have a closed bind dns server. It answers only to queries related to zones it is authoritative for (a normal behaviour... right?). I have dns zones that contain cname that points to hostnames in domains not managed by that server. So it won't resolve

Re: Allow recursion for esternal resources in a authoritative zone on a not open dns server

2013-11-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message e81ed6071f7e3e44a69bc960c04469250c1a2...@s-mi-mail2.milano.wkitaly.it, Chiesa Stefano writes: Hello all. I have a closed bind dns server. It answers only to queries related to zones it is authoritative for (a normal behaviour... right?). I have dns zones that contain cname that

Re: Allow recursion for esternal resources in a authoritative zone on a not open dns server

2013-11-18 Thread Barry Margolin
In article mailman.1694.1384820048.20661.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message e81ed6071f7e3e44a69bc960c04469250c1a2...@s-mi-mail2.milano.wkitaly.it, Chiesa Stefano writes: I'd like to know if there is a way to tell to BIND if the external resource is in

Re: Allow recursion for esternal resources in a authoritative zone on a not open dns server

2013-11-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message barmar-90ddc3.19453818112...@news.eternal-september.org, Barry Margolin writes: In article mailman.1694.1384820048.20661.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message e81ed6071f7e3e44a69bc960c04469250c1a2...@s-mi-mail2.milano.wkitaly.it, Chiesa

Re: Allow recursion for esternal resources in a authoritative zone on a not open dns server

2013-11-18 Thread Barry Margolin
In article mailman.1696.1384823151.20661.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message barmar-90ddc3.19453818112...@news.eternal-september.org, Barry Margolin writes: In article mailman.1694.1384820048.20661.bind-us...@lists.isc.org, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org