More than Caching DNS server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <bkk18t$18q8$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Rudi Starcevic <rudi at oasis.net.au> wrote:
>> Always restrict the recursion to your users only.
>
>I thought I needed recursion on as I want to be the authoritive
>name server for some domain names I have ?

A server doesn't have to recurse when it's authoritative for the domain.  I
think you're confusing "allow-recursion" with "allow-query" -- you need the
latter.

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