dns delegation and recursion

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dtumto$1pup$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 (TM)U?II? ?OU?I?IE <skor at hellug.gr> wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I have an authoritative only dns server running bind 9.
> Is there any way I can permit recursion for specific zones?
> For example I have a zone example.com which delegates some sub domains
> to other nameservers.
> sub.example.com.	IN NS other.dns.server.
> 
> I prefer not to enable recursion globaly.

Why do you think you need this?  The queries that come in to your server 
will most likely not have the Recursion Desired flag set.  So even if 
you allowed recursion, it wouldn't be requested so you wouldn't do it.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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