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Re:Scanning Alexa's Top 1M for AXFR by brohee on Sunday March 29, 2015 @02:19AM (#9284077)
The article author seems to ignore the existence of views. If you have confidential data query-able from the outside, it's a much bigger issue than wide open AXFR... Restricting AXFR is more cute than efficient, the information still leave your network unencrypted.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-bind9-named-configur...

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Re:Scanning Alexa's Top 1M for AXFR by internetwache on Sunday March 29, 2015 @02:34PM (#9285910)
Hi,

that's another good point!

Thanks for bringing it up.

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