RD Flag being set during a DIG, with the +norec option

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9vd0c4$h8k at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
England, Robert (Robert) <england at northamerica.exchange.agere.com> wrote:
>Can BIND be compiled with the rd flag set all the time?  The particular
>query stated no recursive query but the results say differently.

It says that the *response* has the RD flag set.  It doesn't say that the
query had that flag set, although that's the implication.  The server is
supposed to just copy it from the query, but I think I've encountered
servers with a bug where they always set it in the response.  The flag
doesn't have any meaning in a response, so this bug should have no effect
other than confusing users of dig.

>$ /usr/sbin/dig techpac.com.sg ns @202.42.203.2 +norec 
> 
>; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> techpac.com.sg ns @202.42.203.2 +norec 
>; (1 server found)
>;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
>;; got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29572
>;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
>;; QUERY SECTION:
>;;      techpac.com.sg, type = NS, class = IN
> 
>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>techpac.com.sg.         1H IN NS        tpsdns.techpacific.com.sg.
> 
>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>tpsdns.techpacific.com.sg.  1H IN A  202.42.203.2
> 
>;; Total query time: 324 msec
>;; FROM: rootdns1 to SERVER: 202.42.203.2
>;; WHEN: Fri Dec 14 08:04:44 2001
>;; MSG SIZE  sent: 32  rcvd: 81

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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