Hello,

So, you have a lot of people using your server for name name server queries ? That uses your bandwidth ? Not a problem here is the step to overcome that.

Open the file /etc/named.conf

 vi /etc/named.conf

and add below lines by replacing the old allow-recursion and allow-transfer lines

allow-transfer {“none”;};
allow-recursion {“none”;};
recursion no;

restart the named service using the below command and you are done.

 /etc/init.d/named restart

You test the same using dig command, you should find the following output.

 
[root@ns399932 ~]# dig @127.0.0.1 google.com A

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.1 <<>> @127.0.0.1 google.com A
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<

Thank you for watching