Help: BIND _ Recursive query

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>On 4 Mar 2019, at 16:20, Paul Kosinski wrote:
>> provides our users with general caching DNS service for
>> all other domains.
>
>[...]
>
>> Its "named.conf" file doesn't list any "forwarders" any more, and
>> "forward-only" is gone, but it still has a leftover "recursion yes"
>> clause. Am I correct is assuming that this is now useless and can be
>> removed?

On 04.03.19 16:33, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
>If you want "general caching DNS service" to continue to work,
>you'll need to keep "recursion yes".

actually "recursion yes;" is the default, so if you remove it, it stays set
to yes (unless it's set to "no" somewhere).

recursion is the feature that allows BIND to resolve domains not configured
locally, you surely need it enabled.
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