Turning off recusion

[April]

Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <eh8el4$247j$1 at sf1.isc.org>, churchers at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > We have 3 nameservers which are now authorative for about 1000 domain
> > names and have,
> > unfortunately, been historically used as general purpose resolvers.
> >
> > I would like to turn off recusion but if I do, they start reporting any
> > domain name they don't run dns
> > for as being non-existant.
> >
> > --
> > pegasus# ping www.google.com
> > ping: cannot resolve www.google.com: No address associated with name
> > --
> >
> > Shouldn't they be referring the lookup to parent nameservers or am I
> > missing something?
>
> Referring who to the parent nameservers?  Clients almost always have
> "stub resolvers", which do not implement iteration by themselves.  They
> send queries with the Recursion Desired flag set, and depend on the
> server to perform recursion to look up remote names.

where is this "remote names" coming from?  Is this a DNS terminology?
That is called something like "names they are not authoritative or not
cached"!

>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
> *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***