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Zone transfer AXFR + Change or Disable Name Server version

  • At least one of your nameservers allowed a zone transfer to be performed. The zone transfer enables the extraction of all DNS data available for the zone. According to DNS best practices it is advisable to disable zone transfers for public slave zones.

    To disable zone transfer

    Login with root

    edit named.conf

    root@server [~]# vi /etc/named.conf

    by setting this in options {}

    allow-transfer { };

    root@server [~]# :wq

    axfr-ns

    Those persons who want to change there or disable thier nameserver Version do as writen in the above image.

    versionĀ  ” ” ;

    This will disable your name server Version

    That’s it you are done..

  1. #1 Jake
    June 18th, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    Thanks, just what i wanted :D My host advised me to do the changes but didn’t explain how.

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  2. #2 tlancommi
    December 24th, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    “Till then you Keep Commenting! Note: If you want to…”
    How much is it true?

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  3. #3 rennekas
    December 24th, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    “It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and…”
    You can more about this?

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  4. #4 axenra
    December 24th, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    “It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and…”
    How much is realistic?

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  5. #5 real estate web designs
    September 29th, 2011 at 8:54 am

    Another short but helpful post. I did not understand so much about zone transfer but this post has informed me quite more about it. If I am not wrong I think that this will help anyone get access to more data.

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