Forwarding vs recursing

[Kevin Darcy]

Surely you mean "iterating" instead of "recursing". Forwarding *is* recursive;
there is no valid dichotomy between "forwarding" and "recursing"...


- Kevin

Arvid Carlander wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I seem to remember reading somewhere that intenal DNS servers authoritative
> for private addresses should use forwarders rather than recursing via root
> servers.
>
> While this seems reasonable, I am sure there is a more compelling reason.
>
> Can anyone help clarify?