DNS and Bind Recrusion page 30 (3rd edition)
Michael Voight
mvoight at cisco.com
Fri Sep 3 14:16:10 UTC 1999
Ok, then who sends all of the queries when options no-recursion is set?
I'm guessing no one sends the queries after the client resolver sends
the first one it's local nameserver. Honestly, I really don't get this
from that paragraph.
Michael
Cricket Liu wrote:
>
> > Well, that is it. This seems to indicate the local name server is
> > sending the queries. However, that is what it does in recursive mode.
> > With options no-recursions, the client sends the queries, right???
>
> *No, absolutely not.* Stub resolvers can't handle referrals at all, and if
> they get one, they return an error.
>
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