On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 13:24 +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > In message <twig.1251478975.23...@swcp.com>, "Bill Larson" writes: > > John Horne <john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk> said: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I noticed one of the root servers stats > > > ( http://stats.l.root-servers.org/cgi-bin/dsc-grapher.pl? > > window=604800&plot=qtype_vs_invalid_tld&server=L-root ) of queried invalid > > TLDs, as at the moment we have no 'local.' or 'lan.' zones configured. > > Hence, any such queries from us go out to the Internet (sorry). > > > > > > I gather that these zones are used by MS and MAC servers to some extent, > > > so I am wondering if it would be better to simply create an empty zone > > > or one with a wildcard in it? Or does it make any difference? (I have no > > > idea what the zones are used for.) > >
> > Or one can just configure your recursive server as a stealth slave > of the root zone. You make a qery every hour or so and transfer > it twice a day. > Many thanks for this. An interesting solution! I notice that this very question came up in 2004 (https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2004-December/054202.html), and note the concerns about NOTIFY. I am first going to install dnstop to see exactly what is going on. Thanks, John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
