Need info about dns client

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue Nov 20 10:09:09 UTC 2007


On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:15:56AM +0000,
 RAGHAVENDRA SADARAMACHANDRA <s.raghu at samsung.com> wrote 
 a message of 15 lines which said:

>  1. Recursive Query
>  2. Iterative Query
>  3. Full Resolver
>  4. Stub Resolver

Liu & Albitz's book "DNS and BIND" (O'Reilly editor) and then RFC 1034
and 1035, may be?

>  5. How about using broadcast and multicast feature in dns client
 
RFC 4795 (not sure it is supported by BIND).

>  I observed that there is one flag in dns packet to indicate whether
>  recursion is desired or not? Is it sufficient to set/reset this
>  flag to indicate recursive/iterative(non-recursive) query 

Yes, that's its purpose.



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