On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 11:41:29AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Gábor Lénárt: > > > We have a customer complaining that he can't use "dig +trace". > > Just use "dig +trace @a.root-servers.net". It's a bit inconvenient, > but it's not the end of the world. Yes yes, this was the one I've recommended for him too :) Just he tried to make us implement the "comfortable" way with the explanation that RFCs says we must support it. Thanks for all for the answers, and yes, of course I found that odd too, to implement non-recursive queries on a recursive-only nameserver for _all_ domains (or at least for root nameserver), it's quite non-sense, just I wanted to ask you how I can explain the problem with this idea in a way that he can accept. Btw, I found it a bit odd, that dig don't have the heuristic to find this out, to try to fetch the list of root nameservers with recursive query too, or fall back to a built-in list (as nameservers uses root hints file too in some way). Thanks!