Re: Recursion and forwarding

RA means that the responding server is willing to accept recursive queries; it
says nothing about whether it resolves that query recursively, iteratively, or
via some combination of the two. In any event, why would a stub resolver care
_how_ its recursive resolver gets the answer?


- Kevin

William Stacey wrote:

> Thanks Cricket.  So the original "recursive" query was really meant to be
> handled by iteration (root-hints) only.  And now it also means it could be
> answered by way of forwarding?  That does not change the meaning of "RA" if
> only forwarding is enabled - correct?
>
> --
> William Stacey
>
> "Cricket Liu" <cricket@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:baeqia$1rtu$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 12:31  PM, William Stacey wrote:
> >
> > > When was the idea of forwarding added to BIND?  Or was iteration and
> > > forwarding always part of the spec?  TIA
> >
> > Forwarding has been around since at least 4.8.3.
> >
> > cricket
> >
> >