TLD Server

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:17:58PM +0300,
 Wael Shahin <wael.shahin at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 65 lines which said:

> > recursive no;
> > 
> > is also strongly recommended.
>
> You are right, but i had to enable the recursive for dig to work on
> the root server, and testing

This is NOT TRUE. dig works fine with non-recursive servers. Again, do
not enable recursion, you do not need it to test a TLD server, far
from it.

It's quite the opposite, recursion may mask or confuse configuration
problems.


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[Having a root hints file.]

> For the sake of testing, and because the .kom is not a valid TLD, i
> had to do that in order to disallow bind from communicating with the
> root servers which will fail the dig queries

No. You should have disabled recursion instead.