Differences Between Recursion Desired and Recursion Available
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Sun Oct 8 18:08:03 UTC 2017
In article <mailman.717.1507311295.702.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
"Darcy Kevin (FCA)" <kevin.darcy at fcagroup.com> wrote:
> It should be noted that answering from cache, e.g. when a server gets an RD=0
> query, or if it doesn't happen to honor recursion for that particular client,
> was originally (perhaps naively) unrestricted, but, given evolving
> privacy/security concerns, is now restricted by default, in all (or almost
> all) implementations. For BIND, it's controlled by allow-query-cache.
It also makes sense from a technical perspective -- why should the
result of a query depend on coincidences of history of the server? Cache
is meant for performance improvement, but it shouldn't affect the
semantics.
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Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA
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