Does anyone know if there is a way to tell if dig had to perform a recursive query to return an answer? This seems like it would be an obvious thing to indicate in a result but it doesn't seem to show up anyplace. So for example, in the query: # dig @localhost www.somedomain.com I'd like to know: - did localhost consider itself the authorative answer? - if not, did it return the result from local cache? - or, did it recursively discover the result from out on the net? - If it recursively discovered the answer, which server did it query to get the answer? In my testing, I performed some queries where I knew before hand the answers to the above questions and then compared the results from dig and I could find no definitive way to tell the difference in the results. Any dig masters want to give me some tips? John