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Advanced tool to enable/disable recursive DNS lookups

DNS recursion support is defined under BIND 9, using the `recursion’ and the `allow-recursion’ directives, as part of the options grammar.

Download

http://download.swsoft.com/ensim/download/pro/linux/kb/2344/recursivedns

Installation Instructions

Download the script and copy in “/usr/lib/opcenter/bind/” directory.

recursivedns : ‘recursivedns’, allows you to modify the DNS recursion settings for your EPL server.

Invoking the script

To display the recursion settings, just run `recursivedns‘
To turn on recursion support, run `recursivedns on‘
To turn off recursion support, run `recursivedns off‘
To allow recursion to all hosts, run `recursivedns +all‘

To disallow recursion to all hosts, run `recursivedns -all‘
To allow recursion to a particular host, run `recursivedns +HOST‘
To disallow recursion to a particular host, run `recursivedns -HOST‘
To display the usage, run `recursivedns –help‘

Adding reverse IP Lookup in DirectAdmin

Any modern verion of DA will be able to do this through the interface.

Go to: Admin Level -> DNS Administration

Scroll to the bottom to the “Add Zone” section.

Enter your information normally:

where server.hostname.com is the hostname of your server. The IP is your server IP (license IP)
and ns1/ns2 can be any NS your server uses.

Click the “Create Reverse IP Lookup” checkbox, then click “Add”.

Reference link: http://directadmin.com