named and use of resolv.conf? - how to "learn" this

[Matthew Pounsett]

On 2 August 2016 at 17:01, Ray Bellis <ray at isc.org> wrote:

> On 02/08/2016 19:47, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
>
> > In the authoritative configuration, BIND has no need to do DNS lookups
> > of its own, so it wouldn't be any use there.
>
> That's not strictly true - BIND will in some circumstances use its own
> internal resolver to handle the host lookups for NOTIFYs and XFRs if
> they're using hostnames instead of IP lists.
>

Yes it will.  But, as far as I understand, it uses the recursive code paths
to do that, and won't consult resolv.conf.  Yes?


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> Ray
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