DNS and Bind Recrusion page 39 (3rd edition)

[Michael Voight]

Cricket Liu wrote:
> 
> Boy, you guys can't cite text to save your own lives, can you?
> 
> But I now think I've pieced together what you mean.  The paragraph before
> the "Mapping Addresses to Names" section, which begins, "A resolver queries
> a local name server..." could be clearer.  If it began:
> 
> "A resolver sends a recursive query to a local name server, which then sends
> iterative queries to a number of other name servers in pursuit of an answer
> for the resolver."
> 
> it would be clearer.  Do you agree?
> 

Well, that is it. This seems to indicate the local name server is
sending the queries. However, that is what it does in recursive mode.
With options no-recursions, the client sends the queries, right???

Michael