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<para>
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<para>
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- RD bit is not specific to queries (requests of opcode 0), but
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- <quote>qryrecursion</quote> is limited to queries because RD bit is
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- meaningless for the other opcodes and they are passed to another
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- BIND 10 module such as <command>b10-ddns</command>.
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+ The <quote>qryrecursion</quote> counter is limited to queries
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+ (requests of opcode 0) even though the RD bit is not specific
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+ to queries. In practice, this bit is generally just ignored for
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+ other types of requests, while DNS servers behave differently
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+ for queries depending on this bit. It is also known that
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+ some authoritative-only servers receive a non negligible
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+ number of queries with the RD bit being set, so it would be
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+ of particular interest to have a specific counters for such
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+ requests.
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</para>
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</para>
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</note>
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</note>
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