how is a named resolved?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <38ECD960.E57B14E3 at phybertek.com>,
Mark Whitsett  <mwhitset at phybertek.com> wrote:
>Also,
>
>How do you set a nameserver to iterative or recursion? And if you are
>really kind,
>can you explain the difference?

By default a server will perform recursion.  If you want to disable
recursion in a server, put:

options {
  recursion no;
};

in the named.conf file.

When a name server is performing recursion, it always uses iterative
queries.  When a name server is performing forwarding (i.e. it has the
"forwarders" option configured), it sends a recursive query.

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