recursion

[Lightner, Jeff]

Modern being?

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org
[mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf
Of Alan Clegg
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:25 PM
To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: Re: recursion

ic.nssip wrote:
> If there is no option "recursion yes (or no);" specified in
named.conf,
> is the server still recursive?
> Is "recursion" activated by default if option recursion (yes|no) is
> missing in named.conf?

In modern BIND, "allow-recursion" defaults to:

               "{ localhost; localnets; };"

so, yes it is enabled and no, it's not available to everyone.

AlanC
 
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