[CentOS] BIND: listen-on and allow-recursion

Fri Jun 18 11:50:17 UTC 2010
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net>
> listen-on
> allow-recursion
> As far as I understand, the purpose of these two stanzas is to limit 
> access to the DNS server to 1) the server itself and 2) the local 
> 10.11.12.0/24 network. In that case, there seems to be some redundancy 
> in the syntax. Correct me if I'm wrong.

listen-on : the daemon will listen on these IPs for any dns queries
allow-recursion : IPs allowed to issue recursive queries
http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/

JD