Help: BIND _ Recursive query

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.310.1552156356.711.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Paul Kosinski <bind at iment.com> wrote:

> I gather "recursion yes" (explicit or default) controls whether BIND
> *does* recursion itself, in the sense of querying other DNS servers for
> data it doesn't have, not whether it *issues* queries with the
> "recursion desired" flag set. (Somewhat confusing terminology, in my
> opinion.)

That's correct. It corresponds to sending answers with the "recursion 
available" flag set.

> 
> So is the "recursion desired" flag only set when there are forwarders?
> Presumably it is set in the case of "forward only", but what happens if
> there are forwarders defined and both "recursion yes" (default) and
> "forward first" (default) are specified?

It's set for any type of forwarding, it doesn't matter whether it's 
"only" or "first".

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Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA