On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:12:30 -0400 Bill Cole wrote:
> I have never seen the word "iterative" used to describe DNS recursion > or any other DNS resolution algorithm except in the context of a > resolver having multiple servers that it can query at a particular > step of the resolution process It's used that way in RFC1034 and practically every article on the internet about DNS. I'm guessing that probably RFC1034 used non-standard terminology and everyone else picked-up on that. Whatever the right and wrongs of this I think the term recursive is best avoided in this list. "Non-forwarding" is a lot clearer IMO.
