DNS and Bind Recrusion page 39 (3rd edition)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37CF3330.8F9BAD09 at cisco.com>,
Michael Voight  <mvoight at cisco.com> wrote:
>Well, that is it. This seems to indicate the local name server is
>sending the queries. However, that is what it does in recursive mode.
>With options no-recursions, the client sends the queries, right???

With options no-recursion the local name server will not perform a
recursive query on behalf of a request it receives.  What the client does
when the server is unable to perform the recursive query for it is up to
the design of that client.  The resolver routines on most hosts cannot
perform iterative queries on their own -- they depend on the availability
of a server with recursion enabled.  If you point your resolv.conf to a
server with recursion disabled, you'll find that you can't access most of
the Internet.

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