Re: DNS requests with Rd flag cleared

2011-11-05 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 04.11.11 17:21, patrice.wacren...@orange.com wrote: I have noticed that every request sent by a BIND recursive DNS server during its iterative process is sent with rd flag cleared. Correct. when bind does the resolution, it does not ask other servers to do it, only to provide data they have

Re: DNS requests with Rd flag cleared

2011-11-04 Thread Phil Mayers
On 04/11/11 16:21, patrice.wacren...@orange.com wrote: Suppose that my organization has one authoritative DNS server (let’s call it DNS1) for the zone “myzone.fr” configured in such way that the subzone “subzone1.myzone.fr” is delegated to another authoritative DNS server (let’s say DNS2). Supp

DNS requests with Rd flag cleared

2011-11-04 Thread patrice.wacrenier
I have noticed that every request sent by a BIND recursive DNS server during its iterative process is sent with rd flag cleared. I also noticed that when a zone is of type "forward", the forward is not done for requests received with rd flag cleared. In that situation any DNS authoritative ser