Unexpected issues with "nslookup" command

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Fri Apr 16 22:20:35 UTC 2010


In message <FF38BBA1BF42AB46A7F46524614FAB62024C164C at EXVS02.dsw.net>, "Lightner
, Jeff" writes:
> Did I misread your original problem?  I thought you said it worked if
> you had only one of the nameservers in resolv.conf.   You didn't state
> but I assume (that word again) that you meant if either of your
> nameservers was there by itself it worked?
> 
> Why would a recursion issue not come into play when you only had one
> nameserver in resolv.conf?

When you get to the last (only) nameserver you can fail the query
or hope that even though RA is not set the answer is good.  The
later strategy was choosen.

Mark
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