Re: forward zone VS rpz with recursor?

Steinar Haug via Pdns-users <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:51:16 +0100 (CET)

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> The issue is that you need to set the "Recursion Desired" (RD) bit on
> requests which are going to recursive servers. It must not be set on
> requests which are sent to authoritative servers.

On one of the .no ccTLD servers, around 1% of the queries have RD
set. I have no idea if this is typical - but clearly, "must not"
does not completely reflect actual query traffic.

Steinar Haug, AS2116