named

Deny recursive DNS lookups in named (in newer or older versions of BIND)

For security reasons, it's recommended to disable recursive DNS lookups. Here is how:

Find out your named version

named -v

If your BIND version is at least 9.x then insert the following, between options { }:

        // Deny recursive lookups
        allow-query     { any; };
        allow-transfer  { none; };
        allow-recursion { localhost; };
        recursion yes;

So it looks like something like this:

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