DNS and Bind Recrusion page 30 (3rd edition)

[Cricket Liu]

> Ok, then who sends all of the queries when options no-recursion is set?
> I'm guessing no one sends the queries after the client resolver sends
> the first one it's local nameserver.  Honestly, I really don't get this
> from that paragraph.

No one does.  The resolver receives a referral and returns an error.  That's
it.  That's why you don't configure resolvers to query name servers with
recursion turned off.

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