In article <[email protected]>, Paul Kosinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> I gather "recursion yes" (explicit or default) controls whether BIND > *does* recursion itself, in the sense of querying other DNS servers for > data it doesn't have, not whether it *issues* queries with the > "recursion desired" flag set. (Somewhat confusing terminology, in my > opinion.) That's correct. It corresponds to sending answers with the "recursion available" flag set. > > So is the "recursion desired" flag only set when there are forwarders? > Presumably it is set in the case of "forward only", but what happens if > there are forwarders defined and both "recursion yes" (default) and > "forward first" (default) are specified? It's set for any type of forwarding, it doesn't matter whether it's "only" or "first". -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
