[Dnsmasq-discuss] No caching unless recursion enabled?

[bob tatus]

Hi there,

I've been using Dnsmasq for a few days now with no problems, it was caching well and helping a lot.

Yesterday I disabled recursive DNS queries on my DNS server (Bind 9) as this is not required within the environment, since doing this it appears that the caching is no longer working correctly.

To test I enabled recursion once more and the cache hit rate started climbing again and I saw significantly less queries being logged on the bind server, confirming that this was the issue.

I've checked the man page but have not found anything about this? I need to have recursive DNS queries disabled on the DNS server and still have the clients that use this DNS server cache the queries received with Dnsmasq.

The DNS server in question is authoritative for the queries that I want to cache so there should not be any need for recursive DNS.

Thanks, Robert.
 		 	   		   		 	   		  
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