[Dnsmasq-discuss] Recursive warning

[Simon Kelley]

O. Wölfelschneider wrote:
> 
> Hello list!
> 
> Could someone explain to me what this warning from dnsmasq means:
> 
>   nameserver XXX refused to do a recursive query
> 
> Something to worry about?
> 
> It seems the system running dnsmasq is using another
> caching nameserver in between. Since it is at the other
> side of the atlantic, I currently do not know which
> kind. (Could be a cheapo taiwanese router, or some
> windows box...)
> 
> 

It means that the nameserver is returning empty replies with the 
"recursion available" bit the header set to zero. It would be 
interesting to know under what circumstances this occurs (other than the 
obvious, a server which is configured not to do recursion.)

Cheers,

Simon.