Forwarding and Recursion

[Joe]

Thanks for the reply!!!
Joe


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Buxton [mailto:cbuxton at menandmice.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 3:40 PM
To: joeunc
Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: Re: Forwarding and Recursion

You must keep recursion enabled. Otherwise, the client requests will be
refused (or rather, answered in a non-useful manner). Your server won't
actually perform any recursion, because of the forwarding settings.

Chris Buxton
Professional Services
Men & Mice

On Jul 24, 2008, at 10:39 AM, joeunc wrote:

> If I set up a server with forwarders and forward only enabled. Can 
> recursion be set to no and it still forward  queries to the list and 
> get answers back for the clients or must I keep recursion enabled.
> thanks in advance
> Joe
>