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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