[Pdns-users] recursing for records which are missing from authoritative zones

[ktm at rice.edu]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 05:19:22PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 29 Apr 2015, at 15:40, ktm at rice.edu wrote:
> 
> >>Apparently such cases exists, otherwise this sentence would not be in
> >>the documentation.
> >>https://doc.powerdns.com/md/authoritative/recursion/
> 
> Such cases do not exist; the documentation is incorrect/outdated.
> Please file a ticket!
> 
> >A simple case would be a CNAME to an out-of-zone location. In that
> >case
> >it would use the recursor to find the IP address. NS record to an
> >out-of-zone
> >nameserver is another.
> 
> No - neither of those situations work as desired. In both cases the
> client will receive an incomplete answer (i.e. the CNAME, or the NS
> delegation).
> 
> Kind regards,
> -- 
> Peter van Dijk
> PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/
> 

Thank you for the correction.

Regards,
Ken