Help: BIND _ Recursive query

[Paul Kosinski]

We have a BIND server on our LAN which is authoritative for our ".local"
domain and also provides our users with general caching DNS service for
all other domains.

Its "named.conf" file doesn't list any "forwarders" any more, and
"forward-only" is gone, but it still has a leftover "recursion yes"
clause. Am I correct is assuming that this is now useless and can be
removed?

Thanks.


On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 07:37:11 +1100
Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:

> Iterative mode is the default lookup mode for recursive servers.  It
> is where the server follows the delegations from the root servers to
> talk to the authoritative servers directly.  Recursive mode is where
> you use another recursive server (in iterative mode) to talk to the
> authoritative servers. Stub resolvers (in applications) use recursive
> mode.
> 
> > On 4 Mar 2019, at 2:17 am, Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
> > 
> > On 03.03.19 07:36, vivek wrote:
> >> thanks, that means for Bind service to work  we have to have the
> >> "recursion yes" else the forwarder will also not work.
> >> 
> >> Actually I m bit confused between Recursive vs Iterative query
> >> mode , so does this mean Bind will only work in Recursive query
> >> mode & this makes the "Forwarder "  to do his required job.
> >> 
> >> Help in understand so in what scenarios will use/configure Bind in
> >> Iterative query mode.
> > 
> > iterative mode happend when domain is configured locally, otherwise
> > recursive mode is used. you don't need to configure it.