On Monday 18 December 2006 12:52 pm, Karl R. Balsmeier wrote: > More such that the client can cache it, but not a 'server in > between', *only* the authoritative box... Hopefully that makes > sense, i'm basically asking on behalf of our CTO and just mentioned > your question... The answer to which is yes, trying to not use > cached lookups.... Trying to pick through the proposals and > determine what it is they (ultradns and Savvis ITM features are > relying on)... So what you want to do is for _every_ lookup not already in your cache you'd want to do separate non-recursive lookups at each nameserver (try the "dig +trace example.com" command to see what I mean) instead of one recursive lookup? Sure if you can find or write a resolver that'll ask the nameservers the right questions; it's got nothing to do with the DNS servers; they just supply (or fail to supply) the record they're asked for. You can ask the question on bind-users but be prepared to be flamed. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services 1254 So Waterman Ave., Suite 50, San Bernardino, CA 92408 Our blists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"