Example named.options for use with AWS

aws-named-options.conf

options {
  directory "/var/named";
  dump-file "data/cache_dump.db";
  statistics-file "data/named_stats.txt";
  memstatistics-file "data/named_mem_stats.txt";
  listen-on-v6 { any; };
  recursion yes;
  allow-recursion { 10.0.0.0/8; }; // only recurse for hosts within EC2. otherwise, you'll get Amazon internal IPs returned from external hosts when CNAMEs to amazonaws.com are looked up
  allow-query { any; };
  forwarders { 172.16.0.23; };
};