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

[David C Lawrence]

Jim Popovitch writes:
> ~$ 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?

Extremely.  By default dig asks for recursive resolution, and it has
no sense whether the target @server is a resolver or authoritative
server.  Most authoritative servers are properly not configured to
allow recursion, so when the answer comes back without the recursion
available flag set dig just makes a note of that.

You can use dig +norec to turn off the recursion desired flag in the
query, and that will make the warning go away.