[H-GEN] local dns only

[Greg Black]

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Sandra Milne wrote:

| I'd like to use bind to run a local dns, non-caching, just for forwarding. 
| However, I don't want to have it exploited from the outside world. Is there 
| an easy way (other than hosts.deny) to keep the outside world from seeing 
| it and using it?

Two simple solutions come to mind:

 * Use your firewall rules

 * Tell it to listen to 127.0.0.1 only

Greg

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