need help figuring this MX /A record query problem out

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Thu May 17 16:12:22 UTC 2001


>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Knowles <brad.knowles at skynet.be> writes:

    Brad> 	If you want to be authoritative-only and not include
    Brad> caching, you have to add "recursion no;" and ideally
    Brad> "fetch-glue no;" to these options.  Both of these are turned
    Brad> on by default, and if you do not turn these off and you
    Brad> define zones that you are authoritative for, then you will
    Brad> be mixing authoritative and caching services on the same
    Brad> machine.

The fetch-glue option has been dropped from BIND9. The server doesn't
fetch glue any more.


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