On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:31:35PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Alex Samad <[email protected]> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:40:14AM +1100, Kyle wrote:
> >> Alex Samad wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> >> >
> >> > doesn't stop them getting down my adsl link, but atleast it keeps them
> >> > off my dns server :{
> >>
> >> Which begs the question;
> >>
> >> IF it is your personal DNS, it is surely only caching the outside
> >> world and updating for your internal world. Why have you got 53 open
> >> to the outside world in the first place?
> >
> > its not, its a primary and tertiary  for another
> 
> The guide to securing bind9 available from the SANS link I posted has a
> good template for configuring your system to act safely, even if you use
> a single system as a resolver *and* an authoritative DNS server.
> 
> I used it, (urgently since my systems were participating) and it has
> resolved the issue: rimspace.net no longer responds inappropriately to
> outside queries, but is a recursive and authoritative resolver.
> 
> I highly recommend their guides.
yeah I have been through it, had it mostly configured that way - but
nothing majour missing.

I was more sort of interested to see if other members were seeing it,
sort of like when there is a comparison of ssh and spam numbers

> 
> Regards,
>         Daniel
> -- 
> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
> 

-- 
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"

        - George W. Bush
01/29/2000
Concord, N.H.

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

-- 
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Reply via email to