In a bit of bind...

[cmeidinger at sendmail.com (Chris Meidinger)]

On 01.06.2009, at 12:59, Ben Matthew wrote:

> Finally I've managed to successfully configure BIND 9 as a slave to  
> a myDNS server and the AXFR transfers seem to be working fine.  This  
> strikes me as being quite a nice balance of ease of use and  
> reliability in case myDNS fails on me.  Ok I appreciate it doesn't  
> get around security concerns but hey ho.

As far as as security, why have myDNS world-reachable at all? You can  
have bind feed off of myDNS without having anyone on the outside ever  
talk to the myDNS backend.

Chris