Re: Is it secure?

Hi Kazik.
What's your definition of "secure' in this case?
A lot of people use forward zones and/or global forwarding on recursive
servers.

Cheers, Greg

On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 at 13:51, kzkz--- via bind-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I'd like to forward DNS requests in the public (internet) view for a
> subdomain that is hosted on a different DNS server.
> Forwarding isn't supported when the settting 'recursion no' is used.
> Therefore, changing the setting to 'recursion yes' makes it possible.
>
> # (1) existing configuration
> view "public" {
>     allow-query { any; };
>     match-clients { any; };
>     allow-recursion { none; };
>     recursion no;
> ....
>
> # (2) new configuration
> view "public" {
>     allow-query { any; };
>     match-clients { any; };
>     allow-recursion { none; };
>     recursion yes;
> ....
>
> In configuration #(2) forward would be configured as follows:
> zone "other.example.com" {
>     type forward;
>     forward only;
>     forwarders { 10.10.10.10.10; 10.10.10.20; };
> };
>
> Bind is  ver. bind-9.16.23
>
> Will configuration #(2) be secure?
> Is there any risk of security violations compared to configuration #(1)?
>
> Thanks,
> Kazik
>
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