Bind 8.2.3 force recursive

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Sep 14 20:28:39 UTC 2001


Chimento, Douglas wrote:

> All,
>         Is there any way to force DNS to do recursive lookups regardless of
> the type of query made to the dns server.
>         That is, if a request comes in as non-recursive , can you tell DNS
> to treat this as recursive and finish the request for the client.
>         This is kind of odd some let me know if you need more detail.

No, there's no way I know of to do this.

Whatever is generating the non-recursive queries should be capable of
following any referrals you send back to it, so generally there is no need for
"unsolicited recursion". Whatever you're trying to do, there's probably a
better way to do it.


- Kevin




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