30.13. Editing Access Control Lists

An access control list (or ACL) is a list of IP addresses, IP networks or other ACLs that are grouped together under a single name. The ACL name can then be used when specifying the list of clients allowed to query, update or perform zone transfers from a zone. This can be used to reduce the amount of duplication in your BIND configuration, and to make it clearer. For example, the ACL corpnet might match the IP networks 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.2.0/24, and 1.2.3.0/24, which are all part of your company's network. When configuring who can query a zone, you could just enter corpnet instead of that list of network addresses.

To view and edit ACLs in Webmin, the steps to follow are:

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On the module's main page, ...

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