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Open DNS Server allow recursive lookupsLast Modified: Sep 27, 2009, 9:47 pm
Open DNS Server allow recursive lookups

The error basically means that anyone can use your nameservers to do dns lookups on the internet.
It's considered a security risk to allow recursive lookups on an authoritative server. You can disable the recursion by adding

allow-recursion {localnets; };

to the "options {" section in your named.conf file.

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