The "not long discussion" thread....

Christopher L. Morrow christopher.morrow at mci.com
Wed Apr 27 02:59:21 UTC 2005


On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Steve Sobol wrote:
> Jerry Pasker wrote:
> > Steve Sobol replied with:
> >> I'm not going to enter into a long discussion with you. :)
> >> I'm just curious why you didn't restrict AXFR to certain IPs instead.
> >
> > And I had router ACLs doing the same thing.  Allow to hosts that needed
> > it, deny for everyone else.  And I did this to ALL my DNS servers.
>
> What were the router ACLs doing that the DNS server ACLs weren't/couldn't?

This, it seems, was an unfortunate side effect (as I pointed out earlier)
of legacy software and legacy config... if I had  to guess.



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