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Re: Paranoid question regarding Bind



make sure that both your bind daemons run in a different chroot'ed
environment. That helps security a lot. If a bad cracker compromises
your daemon he won't have much to show for ;)

/marco

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rémi Guyomarch" <rguyom@pobox.com>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Paranoid question regarding Bind


On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:11:33AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I ran Nessus today against one of my servers, and found out one thing
> that worried me:
>
> > . Warning found on port domain (53/tcp)
> >
> >    The remote name server allows recursive queries to be performed
> >    by the host running nessusd.

I fixed this by using two nameservers. One external and one internal.

On the external one, I put :
options         no-recursion
in "/var/named/named.boot".

--
Rémi