[Pdns-users] PowerDNS Recursor Question

[Norbert Sendetzky]

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On Friday 16 January 2004 16:03, bert hubert wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:46:45AM -0800, Clint Martin wrote:
> > And queries to non existant hosts in the zone still result in the
> > query being passed to the recursor (although doing the query with
> > the no-recurse option does return an authoritative NXDOMAIN)
>
> Hmyes, tricky. This would hurt performance quite a lot as any
> recursive question for which no answer is available leads to a
> potentially very large number of SQL queries.
>
> I added a feature for this in 2.9.14:
>   arg().setSwitch("recursion-check-nxdomain","Set this to double
> check if recursive queries really don't exist")="";

Have I understood the problem right?
Recursing is done even if pdns is authoritive for the domain, as long 
as the recursor isn't disabled?


Norbert

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