Providing content DNS service with an all-the-hats-at-once DNS server software.

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My DNS server software is one of the ones that vainly try to wear all of the hats at once. How do I configure it to provide content DNS service, so that I can publish my DNS data to rest of Internet ?

This is the Frequently Given Answer to that question.

What you do if you use Microsoft's DNS server

• Disable all forms of recursion, by turning on the "disable recursion" option.

Although not necessary for the explicit task of making the server provide content DNS service, for security also

• Ensure that all "zones" that allow Dynamic DNS updates only allow secure Dynamic DNS updates.

What you do if you use ISC's BIND

• Disable all forms of recursion, by setting the recursion option in BIND's configuration file to no.

• (Applicable only to BIND versions 8 and earlier) Disable additional implicit recursion (that the recursion option doesn't control), by setting the fetch-glue option in BIND's configuration file to no.

Although not necessary for the explicit task of making the server provide content DNS service, for security also

• Ensure that all "zones" that allow Dynamic DNS updates only allow secure Dynamic DNS updates.