Re: Bind cache availability...

John Madden <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>  I'm running Woody distribution of Debian Linux on one of my servers and
> I use it as DNS sever - bind installed on it...
> The DNS server is available to LAN users as same as to internet users...
> For nonexistent records I use hint zone instead of forwarding to my
> provider...this means, I use cacheing of records from root servers...and
> that's the problem...records in my cache are available to internet and
> LAN users, which I don't want for security reasons...I would like them
> to be available only to my LAN users. Is it at least possible...?

Yes.  Set up an acl containing your IP blocks, then set up two separate "view" 
groups and use "match-clients" to filter down the list of IP's that are 
matched into each view.  For the external clients, set "recursion no."

John



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