auth vs caching setup

[Chris Cell]

This may be a rather green question, but what exactly would this do for you?
Is it so the primary server only is responsible for zone transfers, and not
answering to the outside world?

> >I've recently setup BIND8 P5 on an OpenBSD box.  My question
> >is how do I set things up that it is only an authoritative
> >nameserver rather than answer resolution queries?
>
> options {
>   recursion no;
> };