how is a named resolved?
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Thu Apr 6 17:25:30 UTC 2000
In article <38ECA8D2.5BBEA82A at india.hp.com>,
Praveen Kumar Amritaluru <praveen at india.hp.com> wrote:
>Hi Kevin,
>
> I was under the impression that nameserver delivered by IISC is
>recursive server by default. Are the root servers not running BIND on
>their machines, or they have made it iterative. I checked it locally using
>three machines, and nameservers seem to work recursively.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
The root servers are running BIND, but they have "recursion no;" in their
options section. So they reply to queries with referrals to more specific
servers.
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