recursion vs allow-recursion

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Mar 8 22:24:05 UTC 2006


> I see in the "options" statement in the config file two items:
> 
>       recursion yes_or_no;
>       allow-recursion { address_match_list }; 
> 
> I assume that the default for the first is yes.  If I want to add the
> second statement with an address_match_list, do I have to set
> 
>      recursion no;

	If you set "recursion no;" then allow-recursion is effectively
	ignored.
 
> in addition?  How do these two statements iteract?  Thanks.
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