find servers that dont make recursion

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Dec 7 06:30:24 UTC 2005


In article <dn4m1e$2n1b$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "robertwessel2 at yahoo.com" <robertwessel2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Mark Andrews wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi ,
> > >
> > > I'm wondering how I could search for DNS-Servers who don't make recursive
> > > querys ....
> > >
> > > Is there a way to find them ?
> > >
> > > I'm using dig for querying ...
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > 	No nameserver make recursive queries by default.  In BIND 8 and
> > 	BIND 9 you need to configure forwarders to make them make recursive
> > 	queries.
> 
> 
> AFAIK, none of the root servers or GTLD servers support recursion.

I think there's some confusion here.  Is the OP asking about servers 
that *perform* recursion, or which send their queries in recursive mode?   
The first responder was asking the latter question.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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