Andreas Ntaflos <d...@pseudoterminal.org> wrote: > > Using Bind 9 on Ubuntu 12.04 for internal DNS (master for zones > "dc01.example.at.", "7.1.10.in-addr.arpa.", ...) with forwarders (ISP's > nameservers) for everything outside of internal zones. > > The Problem: Clients, when running "hostname -f" or "hostname -i", > create queries for "myhostname." which are sent to the forwarders which > respond with NXDomain. This generates load on the forwarders and exposes > our internally used hostnames, both of which seems unnecessary and > possible dangerous. > > This doesn't seem like normal or healthy behaviour. What can we do to > stop it?
Option 1: put the FQDN in /etc/hostname on each machine. Option 2: populate /etc/hosts on each machine. Option 3: slave the root zone on your name servers. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Shannon: Southeasterly 4 or 5, occasionally 6 in northwest. Moderate or rough. Fair. Moderate or good. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
