TLD Server
Stephane Bortzmeyer
bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Sat Apr 28 18:11:04 UTC 2007
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:17:58PM +0300,
Wael Shahin <wael.shahin at gmail.com> wrote
a message of 65 lines which said:
> > recursive no;
> >
> > is also strongly recommended.
>
> You are right, but i had to enable the recursive for dig to work on
> the root server, and testing
This is NOT TRUE. dig works fine with non-recursive servers. Again, do
not enable recursion, you do not need it to test a TLD server, far
from it.
It's quite the opposite, recursion may mask or confuse configuration
problems.
...
[Having a root hints file.]
> For the sake of testing, and because the .kom is not a valid TLD, i
> had to do that in order to disallow bind from communicating with the
> root servers which will fail the dig queries
No. You should have disabled recursion instead.
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