[dns-operations] 2600::a1 (ns1-auth.sprintlink.net)

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 01:43:13PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> ~$ dig MX ups.com @ns1-auth.sprintlink.net
> ...
> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
> ....
> 
> 
> I'm not always in the loop on things like this, how common is that?

Quite common, and a good practice for authoritative servers not to do
recursion.  Dig sets the rd bit by default.  If you want not to do
that, run it with +norec.

Best regards,

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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