[dns-operations] SERVFAIL or REFUSED?

[Billy Glynn]

Hi Niall,

http://open.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/nsd-users/2011-July/001248.html

Kind regards

Billy

On 28 Mar 2013, at 14:42, Niall O'Reilly wrote:

> Hello.  Clue needed, please.
> 
> I thought I knew, or at least knew where to find out, which status
> should be returned by a name server which receives a recursive query
> but doesn't do recursion either at all or for the part of the network
> where the originating client is.
> 
> I think it should always be REFUSED.  I've seen this as well as
> SERVFAIL in the wild.  Is either equally acceptable, or is only one
> strictly correct?
> 
> TIA and VBR,
> Niall O'Reilly
> 
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