a recursion question

Edvard Tuinder listbind at lunytune.nl
Tue Mar 16 21:37:40 UTC 2004


According to patrick.hulman at cox.net:
> I'm thinking about turning off recursion on my authoriative
> servers (most are bind 9 but some are bind 8).  I also do
> alot of reverse delegations.  Would turning off recursion
> break any of these delegations?

No, turning off recursion will not break delegations as your
nameserver serves them from your zone files, not from its
cache.

Do check whether any one uses your nameservers as caching
nameservers.

-Ed


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