[geeks] How to block an entire domain?

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Thu Oct 11 07:26:45 CDT 2007


Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>> Someone else suggested that I stop DNS lookups for the domain, and  
>> I did.
>> However, I'm still interested in finding out how I could traverse a
>> DNS "tree" and get all the IP address that belong to hosts in the
>> domain and subdomains.
> 
> You used to be able to do this about 6-7 years ago, then it was  
> considered to be a security hole and BIND's config was changed, or  
> they changed something in the code that unless it was specifically  
> allowed, all such requests were denied.

Yeah, few sites allow unrestricted AXFR these days.


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