Aaron - The question is weather or not James should be responsible for recursive lookups. My point of view is that 'No, it should not'. Although as per RFC, a DNS may or may not support it, James as a client should only be concerned with a particular server's response.
As you say ~... it is incumbent upon ~the administrator of a host needing DNS services to find a DNS server ~that can provide the necessary service characteristics. and this should be very clear when configuring James that the appropriate DNS server is used. ~>"If there is no answer because of a lack of recursive lookups, ~>then that /is/ the answer - and this is the desired response." ~I have no idea at all what this sentence means. :-) ~ADK I believe that he was saying that if a DNS cannot resolve, it is because there is no resolution; not because of a lack of recursion - the client (SMTP Server) should accept this and not attempt to recursion because the server is not; you mention too that ther are situations that a public DNS (not a root serever) will not want to perform recursion for a reason - more the reason for clienrts to accpet teh answer given ... _______________________ thanks, alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
